Cause Mapping & ITN for MetaScience 2023

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1	Please make a copy of this spreadsheet for your personal use by clicking on "File" and selecting "Make a Copy".
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3	Cause-Mapping Process:	The goal of cause mapping is to brainstorm ideas for how research in a given field can most effectively contribute to solving the world's most pressing problems.
4	1	Please add one or more promosing existing or potential future approaches in one or more of the cause areas listed in the "Causes & Approaches" tab.
5	2	Please report one or more obstacles of one or more of the approaches in the "Causes & Approaches" sheet to the "Obstacles by Approach" sheet. Please consider the categories of different types of obstacles for guidance on finding obstacles that behavioral science might be able to help with. Feel free to also add any other obstacle that might be important.
6	3	Please list one or more potential solutions to one or more of the obstacles identified in Step 2 in the Sheet Obstacles & Solutions.
7	4	Does this solution involve research in your discipline (e.g., behavioral science)? If so, please specify which questions that research needs to answer to enable or improve this solution. This can also include applied questions concerning the development, refinement, or evaluation of tools or interventions. Is this question related to any of the previously proposed promising research topics?
8	5	Please add any major obstacles that might stand in the way of one or more potential solutions to the sheet "Obstacles by Approach".
9	6	Alternatively, you can also work backward from the previously proposed impactful behavioral science research topics from the lists linked in the Resources tab.
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11	Heuristic Prioritization based on Importance, Tractability, and Neglectedness
12	1	Go to the ITN tab of this spreadsheet
13	2	Write down one or more research topics you consider working on in column A
14	3	Rate each topic's importance, tractability, neglectedness in columns B-D and rate your personal fit for conducting such research in column E.
15	4	The spreadsheet estimates how impactful it might be for you to work on either topic in column F.
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