softwaresaved / international-survey

International collaboration on RSE survey. Contact: @SimonHettrick
https://www.software.ac.uk/blog/2018-03-12-what-do-we-know-about-rses-results-our-international-surveys
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Clarifying some scales #227

Closed Oliph closed 1 year ago

Oliph commented 6 years ago

Feedback received: _Who uses the code that you write?

0 – Mostly Me 1 2 3 4 5 – Mostly Other people

0 and 5 makes sense as they are assigned a value but what are the numbers in between represent? “Mostly me but sometimes others”? “Me and others”? etc. It’s not very clear as the question can’t really be answered by numbers, it’s asking “Who uses your software” rather than “How many people use your software”.

I feel assigning a value to each point in these questions would make them easier to answer and results easier to interpret. It would eliminate different interpretations of what the numbers represent and give more accurate results._

Oliph commented 6 years ago

Need to review the different likert scale to associate better label to each number rather than only to the extremities of the scale.