Plan social sciences research.

Plan social sciences research. is a detailed work activity in O*NET — a concrete unit of work shared across 7 occupations and seen in 9 occupation-specific tasks. It rolls up into the broader work activity Develop research plans or methodologies. in Thinking Creatively .

Detailed work activities are the most granular shared layer in O*NET's work-activity hierarchy (Generalized → Intermediate → Detailed → occupation-specific task). The figures below describe how this activity shows up across the economy and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the work will be automated.

AI exposure

Of the 9 tasks under this activity that the OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rated, 9 (100%) are flagged as directly exposed to language models (E1) or exposed via model-powered tools (E2).

The Anthropic Economic Index observes real AI use on 4 of these tasks, with a mean mapped-usage share of 0.010% per task.

Exposure estimates overlap with model capabilities — whether a model could speed the task up — not whether the work will be done by software. Observed AI use is augmentation and assistance today, not jobs replaced.

Member tasks

Occupation-specific tasks O*NET maps to this detailed work activity, most important first.

• Determine and specify details of survey projects, including sources of information, procedures to be used, and the design of survey instruments and materials. · Survey Researchers · importance 4.5 · exposure with tools
• Support, plan, and coordinate operations for single or multiple surveys. · Survey Researchers · importance 4.5 · exposure with tools
• Plan and conduct research to develop and test theories about societal issues such as crime, group relations, poverty, and aging. · Sociologists · importance 4.3 · exposure with tools
• Plan and direct research to characterize and compare the economic, demographic, health care, social, political, linguistic, and religious institutions of distinct cultural groups, communities, and organizations. · Anthropologists and Archeologists · importance 4.3 · exposure with tools
• Direct updates and changes in survey implementation and methods. · Survey Researchers · importance 4.2 · exposure with tools
• Develop and implement research quality control procedures. · Social Science Research Assistants · importance 4.0 · exposure with tools
• Identify issues for research and analysis. · Political Scientists · importance 3.9 · exposure with tools
• Determine which topics to research, or pursue research topics specified by clients or employers. · Historians · importance 3.7 · exposure with tools
• Plan, supervise, and conduct psychological research and write papers describing research results. · Clinical and Counseling Psychologists · importance 2.9 · exposure with tools

Occupations that perform this

• Survey Researchers
• Sociologists
• Anthropologists and Archeologists
• Social Science Research Assistants
• Political Scientists
• Historians
• Clinical and Counseling Psychologists

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27) Anthropic
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

@misc{singulariki-plan-social-sciences-research,
  title  = {Plan social sciences research.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27); “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/detailed-activities/plan-social-sciences-research}
}