Marcus McDonald is a qualitative researcher who studies people with agoraphobia.Rather than generating a purposive sample,Marcus decides to interview persons with agoraphobia until his interviews no longer yield new information.What point will Marcus have to reach before he can stop conducting interviews?
A)Confidence point
B)Theoretical saturation
C)Tipping point
D)Redundancy
E)Qualitative completion

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Theoretical saturation is the point where no new information is being obtained from the interviews. Therefore, Marcus will have to continue conducting interviews until he reaches this point before he can stop. The other options listed are not relevant to qualitative research and sampling.

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