Hello,

I have a few questions that may seem possible but I just want to know how to conduct them in Inquisit:

1: Is it possible to combine an open ended response and a Likert response in the same question?

Example: How would you describe your current residence? (1) House (2) Apartment (3) Other: Fill in (open)

2: Is it possible to put more than one question on the same page?

3: Is it possible to have a question appear only if the participant answered in a certain way to a previous question?

Example:

Question 1: What is your Gender?: Male/Female

Question 2: To your knowledge, are you currently pregnant? Yes/No 

The second question would only appear if the person answered "Female" to the previous question.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you so much and I hope you are having a wonderful day!

Amina

Not with <likert> and <openended>, which are special types of <trial> elements. Instead you'll want to use <radiobuttons> and <textbox> elements displayed by a <surveypage>.

Yes, a <surveypage> can do that. See the "Demographic survey" tutorial in the documentation for an introduction to those features.

Yes, that's possible, but only if the respective questions are *not* located on the same <surveypage>. See http://www.millisecond.com/forums/Topic5461.aspx#5461 for examples.

Thank you so much!! This helped a lot but I was not able to get one of my questions answered:

Not with <likert> and <openended>, which are special types of <trial> elements. Instead you'll want to use <radiobuttons> and <textbox> elements displayed by a <surveypage>.

Radiobuttons allow for the "other" option but it does not have a fill in feature where the participant can fill in an alternate answer.

I have tried to combine radiobuttons and textbox but that does not seem to work.

Thank you so much for your help!! 

Amina

Using the /other attribute is the correct approach. If you are on a Mac, that may not work in the current release due to a bug. It will be fixed in the next release.

Is there another way of doing it?

Because my participants are medical students and 90% of them have MAC's so the survey needs to work on MAC's.

Please advise,

Thank you for all your help!

Amina

<surveypage mypage>
/ questions = [1=rb; 2=tb]
</surveypage>

<radiobuttons rb>
/ options = ("A", "B", "C", "Other (indicate below)")
</radiobuttons>

<textbox tb>
/ required = false
</textbox>

Thank you this has been so helpful.

I do have a 2 followup questions:

1: How you you require the participant to type in the "other" textbox if they reply "other" in the question?

2: How do you make the font smaller on the page?

Thank you so much for all your help!

Amina

You don't (unless the respective questions are on different pages as discussed previously). However, note that Inquisit 4.0.3 has been made available publicly, which should fix the Mac /other attribute issue.

See the documentation for the various /fontstyle attributes.

Thank you. I switched to Inquisit 4.0.3 and it seems to be working.

BUT I am still getting this error:

I am sorry, no need to reply to this it was actually in surveypage 1 not 7 :)

<surveypage demographics1>
/ caption = "Please answer the following demographic questions."
/ fontstyle = ("Verdana", -16, true, false, false, false, 5, 0)
/ questions = [1=age; 2=sex; 3=Height; 4=Weight; 5=ethnicity; 6=race; 8=religion]
/ branch = [if(dropdown.sex.response=="female")surveypage.femalefollowup]
</surveypage>

There is no 7.

In addition *all* your /other attributes suffer from invalid syntax (as the error messages correctly convey). It's

/ other = "blabla"

*not*

/ other = ("blabla")