[opticks]

Barton interviewed 37 dancers

That's not exactly a statistically large data pool to be making sweeping generalisations for a dissertation. Especially over such a long period of time. Pretty poor scholarship if you ask me.

[chomer]

<> It depends on what kind of research you are doing. For a quantitative study, yes it is a small data pool. For a qualitative study, that is quite a lot of informants. So, Based on your comments I do NOT think you know even the basics of social research as this is one of the first questions (qualitative or quantitative) that one asks before criticizing a study.