Explain why thematic analysis is more appropriate for qualitative data than statistics?
What will be an ideal response?
ANS: Qualitative data consists of things like speech and text, expressions, and visual patterns. All of these concepts can be divided into themes that are still determined by the researcher even though software can count the number of expressions, etc. The making sense aspect of the information is not produced through statistical analysis.
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