<p>Regarding "too broad". I think there are two sorts of ways a question could be too broad. One is the sort of question that amounts to summarizing an entire course or text book: "Please tell me all about regression and how I can do it on my data. Go step by step." That seems clearly way too broad and an easy vote to close.</p>

<p>But there are other questions that ask for "general recommendations" that, I think, can be answered briefly in ways that are often helpful to the questioner. "What are some ways I might analyze these data?" and the answer might be "try XXX which does XXXX, also try YYY and ZZZ" or even a list of methods, without a whole lot of detail.</p>

<p>What do others think?</p>
