LEARN Professional or researcher who has found a study relevant to a decision and needs to quickly assess its credibility and applicability 141 words
Summarise a Research Paper Into a Decision-Ready Brief
Research is only useful if you can assess whether to trust it and what it actually implies for your specific decision. A summary that tells you what a study found but not how much to trust the finding or whether the finding applies to your context is not a decision brief. This produces a five-point brief: finding, trustworthiness, implication, gap, and a one-sentence verdict on whether this study is sufficient to act on.
I need to make a decision informed by the following research. The research paper or study is:
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{RESEARCH_CONTENT}
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My decision context: {DECISION_CONTEXT}
Summarise it into a decision-ready brief:
1. What the study found: the main finding in one sentence
2. How much to trust it: the study design and sample size, whether it is peer-reviewed, and the limitations the authors themselves acknowledge
3. What it tells me for my decision: the specific implication of this finding for {DECISION_CONTEXT}, stated directly
4. What it does not tell me: the gap between what the study establishes and what I would need to know to make my decision with full confidence
5. Whether to act on it: a one-sentence recommendation on whether this single study is sufficient evidence to act on, or whether I should seek additional evidence first ⚠ human-in-the-loop: you are responsible for the results of using this prompt, not us.