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#27 Ranking questions
A new question type should be added to the question types. That
would be a rank question. Let's say you have 10 different things that
you'd like a respondent to rank from 1 through 10. Then a specific
rank question would be needed.
My suggestion is having
the 10 options in a list on the left side in a randomised list and in the
middle have arrows to move options to a right field, one by one. In the
right field an exact same formed type of field is but where the option
get's placed. Also what would be good is if you can mark an option
and have arrows on the right side of it and move it up or down in the
list.
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I don't understand why the need to move things from one side
of the page to the other?
Why can't you use the existing question type: rate(1..5) with
the length set to 10?
I still can't understand the need for randomisation of survey
question choices. Don't get me wrong, randomisation is a neat
feature if we were dealing with an online assessment/test but a
survey?
Kon
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I might have explained it in a foolish way. Let me try to explain the feature
again with a small example!
(Assumption, survey is sent to 500
unemployed people)
"Q1
If the following employers were to offer
you a job tomorrow, with the same conditions, which company would
you like to work for the most, the second most etc.
Please put the
companies in the list below in order of preference...
"
I'm open
to suggestions on how to solve it. Most commercial software use to
boxes where you check on the left side and move them to the right side
and the right side becomes the preference. Randomisation is not
necessarily needed, just an extra function, should be able to display
items alphabetically too...
Did this clear things up?
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Two things.
1. This is a very important type of question for political
surveys (e.g. in Northern Ireland). You can analyse the
results either by a de Borda count or by Condorcet
comparisons. Mathematically it is a very subtle way of
probing opinions (see Social Choice Theory articles in
social choice journals).
2. A simpler interface is to present the options in a list
box, and have an up and down arrow that you use to move
options up or down the list. I have already written
JavaScript code to do that.
Dr. D. R. Newman, Queen's University Belfast
d.r.newman@qub.ac.uk
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"Rate" won't work because it will allow the user to chose
value "1" for more than one item in the list. We want to
force the user to rank items in their preferred order, so
they chose a definate number 1, 2, 3, etc.
An example question would be similar to:
Place the following chores in order of preference:
Doing Laundry
Doing Dishes
Dusting
Cleaning Gutters