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flurielast Tuesday at 10:44 PM1 replyview on HN

This is a qualitative methods paper, so statistical significance is not relevant. The rough qualitative equivalent would instead be "data saturation" (responses generally look like ones you've received already) and "thematic saturation" (you've likely found all the themes you will find through this method of data collection). There's an intuitive quality to determining the number of responses needed based on the topic and research questions, but this looks to me like they have achieved sufficient thematic saturation based on the results.


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game_the0ryyesterday at 2:00 PM

So, I upvoted your comment bc I genuinely believe there is something in your comments worth learning from, but...

> This is a qualitative methods paper, so statistical significance is not relevant.

I have never heard of a "qualitative methods paper" and it sounds like something a researcher would do to push a narrative with "qualitative data" rather than data that could be measured.

Tell me why I am wrong.

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