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Research Question Map

Turn a topic into a study before you commit to one: research questions, a framing, a method, the reviewer's objection and why it matters.

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The thinking behind every branch.

A research project's first week on one canvas. The seed is a topic: street trees and urban heat. Question Branching splits it into questions you could actually answer, Conceptual Framing treats trees as infrastructure, Method Logic designs the study, Reviewer 2 attacks the method before a real reviewer does, and Significance says who would act on the answer. Expand any branch with the Researcher role; its modes follow the same loop.

  1. Seed

    Street trees and urban heat

    Do street trees cool a city where people actually walk and sleep, and for whom?

  2. Conceptual Framing

    Trees as infrastructure

    Treat canopy like drainage or street lighting: a public system with coverage gaps, upkeep costs and failure modes.

  3. Question Branching

    Which blocks heat up first?

    Map surface temperature against canopy, street width and building height, block by block.

  4. Question Branching

    Who sleeps in the hottest blocks?

    Overlay heat with age, income and housing. Heat deaths cluster after hot nights, and few studies measure canopy at 3 a.m.

  5. Method Logic

    Sensor walks + satellite

    Pair Landsat surface temperature with a week of handheld air-temperature walks on matched shaded and unshaded streets.

  6. Reviewer 2

    Surface isn't air temperature

    Satellites read roofs and asphalt, not what a pedestrian feels. Validate against ground sensors or the claim won't hold.

  7. Significance

    Plant where it counts

    A ranked list of streets where one more tree buys the most cooling per resident, ready for the council's next planting budget.

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