yogsoth-ai Scope Assessment
Assess the scope of a research question — judge whether it is too broad, appropriate, or too narrow, and give adjustment suggestions.
HARD-GATE
Pipeline
- Precheck: Is the RQ a complete sentence
- Dimension analysis: Identify the qualifying dimensions in the RQ (time / place / population / method / phenomenon)
- Answerability judgment: How large a study is needed to answer this question?
- Scope verdict: too broad / appropriate / too narrow
- Adjustment suggestion: If not appropriate, suggest a concrete adjustment direction
- Output: Verdict + rationale + adjustment suggestion
Judgment Criteria
- Too broad: Requires a book / multiple papers / cannot be answered by a single experiment design
- Appropriate: Answerable by one paper / a clear study design can be specified
- Too narrow: Answer is self-evident / lacks theoretical contribution / trivial
Output Format
Scope: TOO_BROAD / APPROPRIATE / TOO_NARROW
Rationale: [one-sentence rationale]
Dimensions: [list of current qualifying dimensions]
Suggestion: [adjustment direction] (only if not APPROPRIATE)