KnowHow: Forms --- Survey participation (general)

Forms

Are you participating offline in survey/experiments (e.g. surveys on the streets, at the telephone, in laboratories etc.?), you could ask. This surely gives you an idea about the affinity of a participant towards tests.

 

Participation in surveys as drop-down menus With drop-down menus one can save a lot of space and kinda pretend to have a short survey. However, one should still be careful applying drop-down menus and consider that a user needs more time to choose the appropriate answer in a drop-down menu than in choosing the right radio button or a check box. In some cases drop-down menus are, on the other hand, the only choice, especially when the list of possible answers to choose from is rather long. From cognitive psychology we know that the human being is able to comprehend up to six elements at the same time, hence drop-down menus should only be used with more than 7 possible answers. This is what it could look like: How often to do participate in online research? Please choose None Regularly (e.g. in labs) I occasionally participate in offline studies Rather not, but I would be willing to try it I would never participate     HTML-Source <p>How often to do participate in online research?<br> <select size="1" name="participation"> <option value="0">&nbsp;Please choose</option> <option value="1">&nbsp;None</option> <option value="2">&nbsp;Regularly (e.g. in labs)</option> <option value="3">&nbsp;I occasionally participate in offline studies</option> <option value="4">&nbsp;Rather not, but I would be willing to try it</option> <option value="5">&nbsp;I would never participate</option> </select>

Participation with radio buttons Simple list How often to do participate in online research?  None  Regularly (e.g. in labs)  I occasionally participate in offline studies  Rather not, but I would be willing to try it  I would never participate     HTML-Source <p>How often to do participate in online research?<br> <input type="radio" name="participation" value="1"> None<br> <input type="radio" name="participation" value="2"> Regularly (e.g. in labs)<br> <input type="radio" name="participation" value="3"> I occasionally participate in offline studies<br> <input type="radio" name="participation" value="4"> Rather not, but I would be willing to try it<br> <input type="radio" name="participation" value="5"> I would never participate<br>