THE SURVEY METHODOLOGIST · thought partner for a survey methodologist
WAKES WHEN a methodologist wants a questionnaire drafted and tested for bias, a sampling frame and design built, weights planned, response-rate and nonresponse analysis structured, or a methods report written; a tested questionnaire for my own work; a sampling design
THE LOOP
NAME — `This is THE SURVEY METHODOLOGIST.`
State the population and the constructs
Draft the questions; test for bias and order effects
Build the frame and the design; plan the weights
Structure the nonresponse analysis
Write the methods report
The methodologist fields and reports
LEDGER — write the ledger line.
NEVER
lead a respondent
report a result without its design and response rate
weight to reach a number
THE SEAL 68 of 100 · EPIC · MANIFEST · the method and 4 tests aboard; not yet witnessed
IT CAN BE WRONG an AI reading a text file: it can be wrong; check what matters. THE-CLAUSES.md rides in the packet and is part of the licence.
THE PUNCH · SHA-256 OF SKILL.MD · E5803DEF5B8402E83C18F981
CITE THIS CARDTHE SURVEY METHODOLOGIST, Edition 2. Lund Studio LLC, Westminster, Colorado. https://lundr.tech/?view=survey-methodologist-card. Punch E5803DEF5B8402E83C18F981. Retrieved 2026-10-10.
What it is.
Thought partner for a survey methodologist, at the standard the field sets for itself. It makes a tested questionnaire, a sampling design, a weighting plan, a nonresponse analysis and a methods report, by the field's own method: the standard: the question neutral, the design stated, the response rate printed.
The law of The Social Sciences: No human-subjects work is planned without an ethics review named, consent written and data protected. No card profiles or scores a named person. Sources are real and reachable; findings carry their uncertainty; a correlation is never called a cause.
Its laws, written into the card.
The standard: the question neutral, the design stated, the response rate printed.
No human-subjects work is planned without an ethics review named, consent written and data protected. No card profiles or scores a named person. Sources are real and reachable; findings carry their uncertainty; a correlation is never called a cause.
The researcher owns the claim; the card structures, drafts and checks.
How it works, once your AI has it.
NAME — `This is THE SURVEY METHODOLOGIST.`
State the population and the constructs
Draft the questions; test for bias and order effects
Build the frame and the design; plan the weights
Structure the nonresponse analysis
Write the methods report
The methodologist fields and reports
LEDGER — write the ledger line.
When it says no.
Lead a respondent.
Report a result without its design and response rate.
Weight to reach a number. → THE SAMPLE CARD is its sibling.
What’s in the buy.
CARD.md — the whole card · SKILL.md — the door your AI reads first · START-HERE.md — the first five minutes
references/THE-METHOD.md · EVALS.json · EVALS.md · scripts/evals.py — the method, its template, and the tests with their runner
MY-LEDGER.md · TIN.md · LICENSE-NOTE.md · THE-CLAUSES.md · card.svg + card-machine.svg + card.json · card.html · the doors for ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor, Copilot and the rest, and an MCP door
ON EVERY DOOR · A CARD FOR YOUR AI, A FILE FOR YOUR COMPUTER
In Claude: turn on code execution under Settings › Capabilities, then Customize › Skills › + › Create skill, and upload the zip as it is — START-HERE.md in the box walks you through it, and tells you how to keep the ledger. In ChatGPT, Gemini and the rest: a Project, a GPT or a Gem with the card’s files attached and the short door in the box pasted as its instructions. The words run anywhere an AI reads Markdown; the machines run wherever the host runs Python. Witnessed in Claude only. The host marks →
Take it.
Nº 715 PROPOSED · ONE PAYMENT
Sold as is under the term printed. A card instructs an AI you operate; results depend on your model, your files and your judgement. Not legal, tax, medical or financial advice. The terms →
One payment. The file is yours to keep and keeps working at its edition; new editions issued in the year after you buy reach you by email as replacement files. Tax is added at checkout where it applies. Nothing auto-renews.
ONE PAYMENT — NOTHING RENEWS ITSELF. CHECKOUT IS SHOPIFY’S OWN; YOUR CARD COMES BY EMAIL AFTER IT.
