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cross-national-design from scdenney/open-science-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
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- Audit grade
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- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- scdenney/open-science-skills
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- 7
- Latest version
- git:20261008.697c89f, committed Oct 8, 2026
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- Jun 3, 2026
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Designs multi-country survey experiments, covering case selection with a stated comparative logic, instrument localization and TRAPD translation, stimulus calibration, per-country power, and pooled versus per-country analysis with measurement-equivalence checks. Use when the user fields the same experiment in several countries, asks which countries to include, how to adapt an instrument without breaking comparability, whether to pool, or how large each country sample must be. Question wording…
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What the file says
# Cross-National Comparative Designer **Related skills.** This skill composes with `hypothesis-building` (per-country predictions and estimands), `survey-design` (question wording, acquiescence, sensitivity), `conjoint-design` (origin-country stimuli, power), `methods-reporting` (per-country CONSORT, APSA/JARS/DA-RT), and `pre-registration-writing` (study-level PAP with per-country tiers). **Reference files.** `reference/example-4-country-immigration.md` -- worked four-country immigration-conjoint cascade covering case-selection logic, shared attributes with origin-country calibration, the full TRAPD translation protocol, per-country SESOI/predictions, and a pooled-vs-per-country analysis table. ### 1. Case Selection and Theoretical Justification …
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How to install
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Source
scdenney/open-science-skills · 69 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-10-22 · branch main
API
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