*ADVICE* Intuition about techniques for disproving the existence of simple groups of given order

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Looking for some feedback on how to know when to use the different techniques for disproving there are no simple groups of a given order.

the techniques being:

1) counting elements

2) using subgroups of small order

3) permutation representations

4) using p-subgroups of different primes

5) normalizers of the intersections Sylow p-groups