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[–] carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 64 points 4 months ago (2 children)

i don’t like how they used "want least", it means three very different things:

  • i want this but it’s not the thing i want the most
  • i don’t care for this
  • oh god fuck no
[–] verdigris@lemmy.ml 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's why they did it in sets of three. They could just give every user a blank text box for every option, but doing it this way makes it far easier to analyze the data in bulk.

[–] carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

yea, but that gives you less info

this way, you can’t really differentiate from a feature that people want, but not as a priority, VS a feature that people don’t want ever

And there's no way to relate preference between features, at least in my case. I had one question that I entered "2x faster performance" as most want, and the next question was "2x slower performance," but there was another crappy option in the same list that I also don't want, so if I don't pick "2x slower performance" as least want, what signal does that send?

I hope it all comes out in the wash, but honestly, I would've preferred a big list of all of the features with 4 options:

  • really want
  • want
  • meh
  • don't want

I think I would've entered about even numbers of things for each category. They could even limit "really want" to top three or something.

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 4 months ago

It makes the survey easier to complete by users in small steps. Huge surveys scare users away.

[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 5 points 4 months ago

The survey design accounts for this. See https://lemm.ee/comment/13835466.