On Friday 01 September 2006 02:10 am, mark burdett wrote:
I'm not a survey expert at all.. It seemed to me like we would get more useful data by asking people to choose the best answers, not all which could apply (with regards to why they use drupal, etc.). The original version did have "select all".
"select all that apply" is good. I really doubt you'd get better result by giving an arbitrary limit. The overall top three would probably be the same items, but you'd get more detailed information towards the middle/bottom of the list, too. In reality, I doubt many people would chose more than 3 options within a short list, but it would be fairer to those who might have more than 3 answers not to limit the number of replies. Selecting any number from a list (0,1, or more) is called Approval Voting and there is a lot of technical papers showing that it is a very good way to find the most important item in a list (or the favorite candidate, etc.). I think the mention "select no more than 3" can be safely removed everywhere. Augustin. -- http://www.wechange.org/ Because we and the world need to change. http://www.reuniting.info/ Intimate Relationships, peace and harmony in the couple.