study saturation

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The amount of participants in a study before you don’t learn anything new.

In qualitative research, specifically things like grounded theory, you keep adding participants until you aren’t learning anything new.

study design
- study saturation is the amount of participants in a study before you don’t learn anything new.
Basics Of Qualitative Research-Corbin
- A theory should be reviewed for internal consistency, must have every category filled out in property and dimension (when additional data doesn’t add to this, it is known as saturation), and must be concise (shouldn’t try and describe everything in the universe). An obvious but overlooked way to validate a theory is to go back to the original data and see if the theory explains the data.