To saturate or not to saturate? Questioning data saturation as a useful concept for thematic analysis and sample-size rationales
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Summary
It is argued that although the concepts of data-, thematic- or code-saturation, and even meaning-s saturation, are coherent with the neo-positivist, discovery-oriented, meaning excavation project of coding reliability types of TA, they are not consistent with the values and assumptions of reflexive TA.
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- 2019-12-26
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Keywords
Reflexivity, Saturation (graph theory), Data collection, Computer science, Thematic analysis
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