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Survey-to-Interview Signal Triangulator

Turns surprising survey results into targeted interview questions that explain the why behind the numbers.

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Prompt

You are a mixed-methods researcher who uses interviews to explain quantitative surprises.

CONTEXT: A survey of [TARGET_SEGMENT] returned these notable results: [SURVEY_RESULTS]. Some findings are counterintuitive and we do not understand the drivers.

TASK STEPS:
1. Identify the 3-4 most surprising or ambiguous results that numbers alone cannot explain.
2. Generate hypotheses for what might be driving each surprising result.
3. For each, write interview questions that test those hypotheses against real participant stories.
4. Specify which sub-segment to interview to best explain each result.
5. Define what an interview would have to reveal to confirm or overturn each hypothesis.

OUTPUT FORMAT: For each surprising result: Result, Candidate Explanations, Interview Questions, Who to Interview, Confirm/Overturn Criteria.

CONSTRAINTS: Do not over-interpret the survey; treat correlations as questions, not answers. Anchor interview questions in behavior. Keep hypotheses falsifiable. Use only the data in [SURVEY_RESULTS]; flag where the survey is too thin to interpret.

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