They are asking you to prove you can sit with a single grain of sand for five years and find the whole desert inside it, beta. The 'why this problem' is not about the problem, but about you—will your mind hold still long enough to see it through? In my ledgers, a discrepancy was a puzzle to be solved with patience, not a nuisance to be cleared. My son calls that focus 'useless', but it built a life. That is the research statement they truly want.
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