Good research questions are

AClear, significant and ethical

BFeasible, clear, significant and ethical ✓ Correct

CFeasible, clear, significant and include a hypothesis

DFeasible, clear and ethical

Correct answer: (B) Feasible, clear, significant and ethical

Explanation

Good research questions are feasible, clear, significant and ethical at the same time.

Feasibility keeps the study within available time, resources and access to data.

Clear, significant and ethical omits feasibility, without which a study cannot be completed.

Adding a required hypothesis is wrong because many valid questions are exploratory and need none.

Feasible, clear and ethical drops significance, so the question may add nothing worthwhile.

The FINER set adds interesting and novel to feasible, ethical and relevant criteria.

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