methodologist

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A person who plans and checks ways to do research to make studies reliable

noun
/ˌmɛθəˈdɑlədʒɪst/

Specialized

: metodólogo

The past decade has seen the rapid rise of an alternative approach: one of getting information methodologists and content experts to develop packages of high-quality evidence in summary form with clear and succinct bottom lines that would compel busy practitioners to action.
research methodologist

We were great statisticians and methodologists, but we didn't have any substance.

Examples

The methodologist developed a new approach to analyze the data more effectively.
After all, the carefully honed efforts of researchers, statisticians, methodologists, and policy analysts can certainly derive a better measure than the SAT.

Academic text (1994)
For example, methodologists paid for the many workshops offered to teachers who are in search of 'what works.' 29.

Academic text (2014)
Already this year, our methodologists instituted a number of changes.

Blog text (4)
I think this argument has been greatly overlooked by methodologists.

Blog text (8)
I have heard this argument from many methodologists, but it doesn't necessarily help people do good science.

Blog text (8)
As we began this election tracking program on Oct. 1, our methodologists also recommended modifying and updating several procedures.

Blog text (16)
Reflecting the prevailing culture, writing assessment methodologists began to abandon the drive for objectivity in favor of methods advocating controlled subjectivity.

Academic text (1991)
With this methodological foundation, a working group consisting of two plastic surgeons with extensive experience in breast reconstruction, a general surgeon with expertise in breast cancer surgery, and a cancer research methodologist drafted the guideline recommendations.

Academic text (2015)
Research methodologists have shown empirically that observational studies can, with careful design and under certain conditions, substantially reduce bias due to selection in analytical results (Steiner, Cook, Shadish, & Clark, 2010).

Academic text (2013)

Surface Forms

methodologist singular

methodologists plural

Morphology

methodologist = methodology (semi-transparent) = method + ology + ist

The word is clearly related to 'method' and the specialist noun pattern, but the intermediate notion of 'methodology' makes the exact meaning somewhat more learned than a fully transparent everyday derivative.

Etymology

Methodologist comes from the word method, from a Greek word meaning 'way of doing things', plus the part -ologist, which means 'one who studies' and is used in words like biologist. So a methodologist is a person who studies or creates good methods.