A useful test: could you finish a defensible study in your remaining time with the data you can actually access? If not, the question is still too wide.
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How narrow should a PhD research question be?
Example of the kind of research problem you can ask on PhDSOS.
My supervisor says my question is too broad. How narrow is narrow enough?
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