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7 Ideas, 6 Comments, 13 Votes

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 1 year ago
 1 year ago

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While matrix questions are nice, letting respondents input their own answers greatly increases error. It would be nice to let them select from a list of responses for each element of the matrix.
A specific option for a conjoint analysis question may not have the same range in any given attribute as the other options. To make more realistic comparisons the basket of attributes of each option need different ranges. This would make these question types much more useful.
In many programs I have used, the red star associated with required questions is repeatedly criticized by pre-testers as an unattractive way to represent such questions. Personally, I think it is appropriate in some cases, such as collecting form information like addresses and zipcodes. But for more involved questionnaires others have told me that it is a distraction. It would be useful to have a global option where questions that are required do not have to show a red star. Even better would be to allow people to choose the color and type of indicating character they would like, including no character at all.
Spreadsheet questions do not allow branching of any kind. I understand that developing branching rules off answers that are totally random and unstructured is difficult and subject to a lot of problems. But what would be easier and useful would be to have at least a "No Branching" option for the spreadsheet question. I may filter out a person that I want to ask a special spreadsheet question to, and then I might want to direct anyone who answers that question to some other place, regardless of what they put. In other words, a previous question classifies them, I get the special information that I want from the spreadsheet question, and because they have already been classified, I want to direct them to some other position. Currently, this appears not to be possible.
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It would be useful if the "Other" response in a multiple choice question does not always have to be the last answer. For one question I designed, I wanted to put it as the first response, because this particular question actually expected that people would be able to type the answer better than picking a category. Most of the time, "Other" is the last response, but the versatility of question design would improve if "Other"-like responses could be placed anywhere among the choices (or maybe just in the first or last spot)?
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This is possible, so I closed this one.
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survey 1 year ago
It would also be nice to display a single image for a given multiple choice question.
survey 1 year ago
This should definitely be done. I have had respondents write angry feedback to me over not having a back button.
survey 1 year ago
I don't believe that this should be the focus of an online survey program. Its important to understand how your respondents differ from the general population, but weighting properly requires attention to all sorts of methodological issues specific to the data. But even if it were more trivial, why would an online survey program be an improved tool for analysis? These are tasks better suited for the desktop in an Excel spreadsheet or a statistical analysis software like SPSS. I think that there are still many issues with the function and presentation of the survey program that require more attention.
survey 1 year ago
But how is this an improvement from doing advanced sample management in Excel or some other program managing lists? I think this feature will rarely be used, and distracts from many of the more fundamental functionality enhancements that would make Question Pro more competitive. I imagine most people managing their sample will do so manually, and prefer not to rely on an online interface where the procedure is less transparent. Its an interesting problem, but is it really what Question Pro should be focusing on?
survey 1 year ago
Thank you for the explanation, I will try to do it, but earlier I could not, and someone in a tech support chat told me this was not possible. But I'll give it another shot. Thanks.
survey 1 year ago
One additional issue in this respect is that I have found that the text box widths are different for different browsers. For instance, with IE their longer, Firefox a little shorter, and in Safari their really small. Having the ability to adjust text box with in spreadsheet questions would make this effect less noticeable.