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{"id":463,"date":"2025-08-28T16:27:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T16:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paultrowler.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=463"},"modified":"2025-11-21T06:19:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T06:19:26","slug":"chapter-12-evaluating-your-claims-for-significance","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/paultrowler.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/chapter-12-evaluating-your-claims-for-significance\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 8: Evaluating your claims for significance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n \n \n Research Significance Evaluator<\/title>\n\n \n <script src=\"https:\/\/cdn.tailwindcss.com\"><\/script>\n <script>\n tailwind.config = {\n theme: {\n extend: {\n colors: {\n primary: {\n 50:'#eff6ff',100:'#dbeafe',200:'#bfdbfe',300:'#93c5fd',\n 400:'#60a5fa',500:'#3b82f6',600:'#2563eb',700:'#1d4ed8',\n 800:'#1e40af',900:'#1e3a8a'\n }\n },\n boxShadow: { soft:'0 10px 25px -10px rgba(30,64,175,0.25)' },\n borderRadius: { '2xl':'1.25rem' }\n }\n }\n }\n <\/script>\n\n \n <link rel=\"preconnect\" href=\"https:\/\/fonts.googleapis.com\"\/>\n <link rel=\"preconnect\" href=\"https:\/\/fonts.gstatic.com\" crossorigin\/>\n <link href=\"https:\/\/fonts.googleapis.com\/css2?family=Inter:wght@400;500;600;800&display=swap\" rel=\"stylesheet\"\/>\n\n <style>\n html,body{\n font-family:Inter,system-ui,-apple-system,Segoe UI,Roboto,Ubuntu,Cantarell,Noto Sans,sans-serif;\n font-size:15px;\n line-height:1.6;\n }\n .prompt-gap {\n background-color:#dbeafe;\n color:#1e40af;\n padding:1px 6px;\n border-radius:4px;\n font-weight:600;\n font-family:ui-monospace,SFMono-Regular,Menlo,Monaco,Consolas,\"Liberation Mono\",\"Courier New\",monospace;\n }\n .prompt-gap-filled { background-color:#dcfce7; color:#166534; }\n <\/style>\n<\/head>\n<body class=\"bg-primary-50 text-slate-800\">\n <div class=\"max-w-6xl mx-auto px-4 py-6 sm:py-8 space-y-6\">\n\n \n <div class=\"bg-white p-6 rounded-2xl shadow-soft border border-primary-100\">\n <h1 class=\"text-2xl md:text-3xl font-extrabold text-primary-800\">Research Significance Evaluator<\/h1>\n <p class=\"text-[15px] text-slate-700 mt-2\">\n This tool builds a prompt for an AI (e.g., ChatGPT) to evaluate your <em>research significance<\/em> claim (\u201cso what?\u201d).\n You\u2019ll get strengths, weaknesses, a significance\u2194practicality score with justification, risks & mitigations, and a short Socratic dialogue to refine the claim.\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n \n <section id=\"pt-project-summary-block\" class=\"relative isolate\">\n <div class=\"rounded-2xl border border-primary-200 bg-white shadow-sm\">\n <div class=\"border-b border-primary-100 bg-primary-50\/60 rounded-t-2xl px-4 sm:px-6 py-3 flex items-center gap-3\">\n <div class=\"h-8 w-8 flex items-center justify-center rounded-full bg-primary-100 text-primary-800 font-semibold\">0<\/div>\n <h3 class=\"m-0 text-base sm:text-lg font-semibold text-primary-900\">Paste your doctoral project summary<\/h3>\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"p-4 sm:p-6 space-y-3\">\n <p class=\"text-[15px] text-primary-900\/90 leading-relaxed\">\n Paste the short summary you created in\n <a href=\"https:\/\/paultrowler.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/helping-ai-to-understand-your-research-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"underline text-primary-700 hover:text-primary-900\">\n Chapter 1 \u2014 Helping AI Understand Your Research Project\n <\/a>. 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