humrel-methods
Use when choosing and justifying the research design for a Human Relations (HR) manuscript — qualitative/ethnographic, critical, quantitative, or mixed — and setting the rigor bar. Designs the study; it does not run the analysis (see humrel-data-analysis).
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill humrel-methods --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Methods & Research Design (humrel-methods) ## When to trigger - You are choosing among a qualitative/ethnographic, critical, quantitative, or mixed-methods design - The design is chosen but its *rigor and transparency* are not yet defensible - A qualitative study lacks a sampling logic or trustworthiness safeguards - A quantitative study lacks construct validity or theorizes only the coefficient - A mixed-methods study cannot say *why* both strands and what each adds ## Principle: method follows the theoretical question — and HR privileges none HR treats qualitative, critical, quantitative, and mixed-methods work as **equally first-class**, in the Tavistock human-relations tradition. There is no house preference for an estimator or a paradigm; what is non-negotiable is that the design fits the social-theoretical question (from `humrel-theory-development`) and is executed with rigor, transparency, and reflexivity. A sophisticated method cannot rescue a thin theory, and a single immersive ethnography can carry an HR paper if the insight is deep and the craft is high. Note also the **double-anonymous review**: write methods so they establish credibility without revealing the authors
- When to trigger
- Principle: method follows the theoretical question — and HR privileges none
- Branch A — Qualitative / ethnographic design
- Branch B — Critical design
- Branch C — Quantitative design
- Branch D — Mixed methods
- Either branch
- Execution bridge (StatsPAI / Stata MCP)
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the humrel-methods skill do?
Use when choosing and justifying the research design for a Human Relations (HR) manuscript — qualitative/ethnographic, critical, quantitative, or mixed — and setting the rigor bar. Designs the study; it does not run the analysis (see humrel-data-analysis).
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill humrel-methods --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 909 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.