Hm? In the politics question, I’m pretty sure you’re forced to pick one of the five.
Actually, that reminds me of a potentially better way to measure politics: score voting. Have people give each of the five options a score from 1 to 10 based on their identification- then you can release both unnormed scores (people gave libertarianism an average rating of 3) and normed scores (when people’s scores were expanded so their score range was 1 to 10 regardless of the range they supplied, libertarianism had an average rating of 5).
This will make it possible to identify people who really believe in one of them (by giving it a 10) and people who think that all are bad, but maybe one of them is the least bad.
Can forms with radio buttons be submitted without selecting any? I hadn’t noticed that. And anyway, if you select one by accident, in all browsers I remember using there’s no easy way to unselect it without selecting another.
(Yes, by “easy” I meant ‘without having to fill out the survey again’. Which is a helluva trivial inconvenience IMO—I think I’d rather just pick the least bad answer rather than starting over.)
Hm? In the politics question, I’m pretty sure you’re forced to pick one of the five.
Actually, that reminds me of a potentially better way to measure politics: score voting. Have people give each of the five options a score from 1 to 10 based on their identification- then you can release both unnormed scores (people gave libertarianism an average rating of 3) and normed scores (when people’s scores were expanded so their score range was 1 to 10 regardless of the range they supplied, libertarianism had an average rating of 5).
This will make it possible to identify people who really believe in one of them (by giving it a 10) and people who think that all are bad, but maybe one of them is the least bad.
I don’t think there is a default option- one can simply not select any answer.
But the point of the open text field for responses is that it provides input regarding what should be included on the next survey.
Can forms with radio buttons be submitted without selecting any? I hadn’t noticed that. And anyway, if you select one by accident, in all browsers I remember using there’s no easy way to unselect it without selecting another.
Reload the page; ‘easy’ might vary between people and how much of the survey has already been filled out.
(Yes, by “easy” I meant ‘without having to fill out the survey again’. Which is a helluva trivial inconvenience IMO—I think I’d rather just pick the least bad answer rather than starting over.)