In qualitative research, is it ok to say 'some students think A..., some students think B...; while some other students think C..." I did not count how many students in each group, or the percentage, because I did not think the number is important. However, my supervisor dislikes the word 'some', he wanted me to use another word or term. Is he wrong by having a quantitative mind, or my using 'some' is wrong?

Any thoughts/comments are appreciated.

Thank Emmaki and Chickpea for your great answers.

I am doing a qualitative research and I found/proposed three categories from my interview data. When I reported my findings/results, I wrote like this: "It was found that ....". But my supervisor recommended "it was proposed that..". The categories were constructed from my data and if i said 'proposed', does it mean that I did not have the evidence?

Perhpas my supervisor was right in that these categories were built/constructed/proposed, but I was wondering if it was wrong to say "it was found...". How do qualitative researchers report their findings? They do not use the word "find" or "it was found"?

Thank you very much for any comments.