Survey researchers use randomization as a tool to combat survey bias. Randomizing the order of questions, pages, and/or answer options in your survey can prevent bias introduced by order and/or survey fatigue. Within SurveyGizmo you can randomize questions, pages, and answer options! We also have a little-known feature that allows you to randomly flip the display of a rating scale right to left.
Setup
To set this up, go to the Layout tab of your Rating question and select the Stacked orientation option (the flip scales randomly option is only available with the Stacked orientation). Then, under Scale Options, select the option to Flip Scales Randomly (left to right).
Now, if you preview your survey a couple of times you should see your rating scale options display in different order randomly.
Compatible Questions
The following questions are compatible with the Flip Scales Randomly setting:
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Admin
— Dave Domagalski on 01/03/2019
@Brannan: Thank you for taking the time to share this feedback with us!
I'm sorry for current limitations with regard to randomly flipping the scales of questions.
While there are no immediate plans to upgrade this functionality, I will share this note with our Product team for future consideration.
In the meantime, one option to consider is consulting with our Professional Services team on a custom solution for this functionality:
https://www.surveygizmo.com/programming-services/
Thank you again for your feedback and suggestions.
David
Documentation Specialist
SurveyGizmo Customer Experience
— Brannan on 01/02/2019
It's been years at this point since the last commenter pointed this out -- but there NEEDS to be an option to either:
A) randomly flip the order of a SERIES of Likert Scale questions
B) randomly flip the column order on a radio (or checkbox) grid type question -- not just randomly scatter the order
It's nice to be able to flip the scale on one, single Likert scale question. This is a great option.
However, when I have a series of (for example) three Likert-type questions in a row with the same option set, I want to have these options all flip randomly in sync. In other words, the order of the rating scale will be random, but consistent for each respondent seeing a given page on the survey.
The lack of this feature is frustrating. As a respondent, I would exit out of a survey if there was a series of 5-point Likert scales and they just kept randomly changing which way the scale was oriented as I scrolled down the page.
The only (kind of) workaround is use a radio grid instead that has a maximum of three scale options across the top -- then anchor the middle option (fixed position) -- and set the column layout to random (so that the outer two options will randomly "flip"). Only having the possibility of using three options though is a bummer, to say the least!!
Admin
— Bri Hillmer on 10/01/2015
@Dnarvaiz: We have a randomize row and randomize column option for table questions. This is covered in the Randomize Answers Tutorial below though I'm pretty sure from your explanation that this is not what you are looking for.
http://help.surveygizmo.com/help/article/link/randomization
I'm sorry we do not have the option to flip scales in grid questions. If you are familiar with CSS you can tweak the display of likert scale questions to look more like a table. Perhaps this would work for you!
Bri
Documentation Coordinator / Survey Sorceress
SurveyGizmo Support
— Rfree on 10/01/2015
Can you guys add this functionality to the radio button grid question type? What I'm having to do now (generate random #, display the punch order based on the random # value, then with the data re-code one set to match the data from the other, and finally merge the data) if I could just flip the scales in the question type it would make things a lot easier. I don't want to do the above because if I'm working on a series of say ten questions it could cause a bit of unintentional errant responses. I would rather have the whole group of questions flip together.