The result of a well-done exploratory study is a hypothesis. That’s the formulation of the hypothesis. And it also results in having, giving you the information, you need to design a good study for that hypothesis. Questions like, what populations should I sample? How should I sample it? What measures should I take? How should I design this study? Should it be cross-sectional, longitudinal, etc, all of those types of questions. The answers should be based on what you’ve learned in the exploration phase of the study.
Next step is a pilot study. So now you have a strong hypothesis with good rationale justification. You have designed a study and the question is whether you can actually do that study. Have you made the right decisions? Can I sample or, draw a large enough sample? Can I use these measurements? Does it take six hours or three hours to get these measurements? Any sort of questions of implementation of that sort becomes a pilot study, which is a feasibility study. You use the results of the feasibility study to tweak your design so that you can do it…
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