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April 29, 2015International Journal of Social Research MethodologyOpen Access

Themes, variables, and the limits to calculating sample size in qualitative research: a response to Fugard and Potts

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Andrew Fugard and Henry Potts’ paper joins a small number of papers that seek to justify sample size through counting themes. Unlike the other two papers I can think of, Guest and colleagues and Fr...

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Nick Emmel (2015) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a10e05e5e6663f9d26494f3 https://doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2015.1005457

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