Go from likert scales to sliders with scale points?

willschulz / bad-influence

Video discussion experiments to counter pathological influence in political discussions

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Closed JamesPHoughton closed 1 year ago

JamesPHoughton commented 1 year ago

Currently, we do everything with likert scales. Any reason we should change this? If so we'll need to build up sliders (https://github.com/Watts-Lab/deliberation-empirica/issues/424)

xehu commented 1 year ago

I tend to be against general sliders, based on personal experience...

People have very different ideas of what one 'notch' on a slider means, leading to more noise;
Anchoring effects on sliders are super strong. If you anchor it in the middle, people submit very low-variance responses around the anchor, and if you give no anchor at all, people tend to get confused about how to click the slider.

willschulz commented 1 year ago

I'm fine with dropping slides from the agenda.