ConductScience science

Methods before conclusions.

A practical library for choosing methods, defining measurements, controlling confounds, and reporting what the evidence can support across research workflows.

Define
measurements before interpretation
Choose
paradigms, workflows, and product methods
Control
confounds, design limits, and evidence claims

Library families

Start with the scientific question, then move to the measured endpoint, method family, study design, and evidence limits that make the result interpretable.

Built around reporting and validity
Concepts
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Science Concepts

Definitions and operating language for behavioral measurements, constructs, and scoring terms.

What this helps with

Give researchers shared vocabulary before they compare methods or interpret data.

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Endpoints
Endpoints

Behavioral Endpoints

Endpoint guides for measured values such as freezing, latency, distance, zone time, and threshold.

What this helps with

Define what was measured and what cannot be inferred from the value alone.

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Paradigms
Paradigms

Research Paradigms

Task families that connect research questions to endpoints, methods, apparatus, and confounds.

What this helps with

Help scientists choose the right behavioral task family before choosing a product.

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Workflows
Workflows

Study Workflows

Protocol-shaped planning guides that link objective, method sequence, equipment, and outputs.

What this helps with

Turn disconnected pages into a practical study-planning path.

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Confounds
Confounds

Experimental Confounds

Threats to validity such as handling, lighting, odor, housing, habituation, and timing.

What this helps with

Make data-quality risks visible before a method is run.

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Applications
Applications

Research Applications

Research-goal pages for pain, anxiety, memory, motor function, social behavior, and phenotyping.

What this helps with

Map a research goal to endpoints, models, methods, and workflow choices.

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Models
Models

Research Models

Biological and disease model pages that clarify expected readouts and translational caveats.

What this helps with

Help researchers connect biological model choice to measurable behavioral outputs.

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Methods
Methods

Research Methods

Method-selection guides for choosing protocols, apparatus settings, controls, and reporting fields.

What this helps with

Help scientists compare protocol families before committing to a runnable experiment.

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Study designs
Study designs

Study Designs

Experimental design logic for randomization, blinding, repeated measures, order, and washout.

What this helps with

Explain design choices that change interpretation and analysis.

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Batteries
Batteries

Behavioral Batteries

Multi-method sets for a research objective, with order effects and endpoint coverage visible.

What this helps with

Plan a coherent method set instead of reading one endpoint in isolation.

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Data analysis
Data analysis

Data Analysis

Analysis pages for input data, derived metrics, assumptions, exclusions, and reporting units.

What this helps with

Connect raw behavioral data to defensible calculated endpoints.

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Validation
Validation

Scientific Validation

Evidence standards for construct validity, predictive validity, reproducibility, and controls.

What this helps with

Keep interpretation grounded in evidence instead of treating endpoints as direct traits.

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