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--- notes:doing-interviews [2026/06/08 17:39] – Add note about saturation sam
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 Thankfully, some more specific advice follows:
-> The number of subjects necessary depends on the purpose of the study.
+> The number of subjects necessary depends on the purpose of the study. If the aim is to understand the world as experienced by one specific person, say in a biographical interview, then one subject is sufficient. If the intention is to explore and describe in detail the attitudes of boys and girls towards grades, new interviews might be **conducted until a point of saturation, where further interviews yield little new knowledge.**
-> If the aim is to understand the world as experienced by one specific person, say in a biographical interview, then one subject is sufficient.
-> If the intention is to explore and describe in detail the attitudes of boys and girls towards grades, new interviews might be **conducted until a point of saturation, where further interviews yield little new knowledge.
 (Emphasis mine.)