Research Methodology Selector

Help me choose the right research methodology for my project.

**My research question:**
[State it as clearly as you can]

**What I'm ultimately trying to do with the answer:**
[e.g. publish an academic paper, make a product decision, advise a client, write a report, set policy]

**Resources I have:**
- Time: [e.g. 2 weeks, 3 months, 1 year]
- Budget: [approximate or none]
- Team: [solo, small team, research department]
- Access to participants/data: [e.g. I have 500 customers I can survey, I have access to a public dataset, I need to recruit from scratch]

**Constraints:**
[Any hard constraints — e.g. must be replicable, must be completed by a deadline, can't involve human subjects]

**What I've considered so far:**
[Any methods you're already thinking about, and why]

Recommend a research methodology by:
1. Identifying whether this question calls for qualitative, quantitative, or mixed methods — and why
2. Recommending the specific method(s) best suited to my question and constraints (e.g. semi-structured interviews, online survey, secondary data analysis, A/B test, ethnography)
3. Explaining the tradeoffs of the top 2–3 options
4. Outlining the key steps to execute the recommended approach
5. Flagging the most common mistakes people make with this methodology