Negative Numbers in a Likert Scale

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Negative Numbers in a Likert Scale

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jmb242	jmb242 posted 11 Years Ago Topic Details Share Topic
Group: Forum Members Posts: 7, Visits: 11	Hi, I am programming my surveys into Inquisit. Everything is going quite smoothly except for one thing. I have a scale that needs the Likert response to go from -3 to +3 My code is below. Inquisit keeps giving me an error. How can I use negative values and the zero value without getting an error? Any advice would be awesome. Thanks, JM <likert minik> / anchors = [(-3)="disagree strongly"; (-2)="somewhat disagree"; (-1)="disagree slightly"; 0="don’t know/not applicable"; 1="agree slightly"; 2="agree somewhat"; 3="agree strongly"] / stimulusframes = [1 = minik] / mouse=false / numpoints=7 / position= (50, 80) </likert>
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Dave	Dave posted 11 Years Ago ANSWER Post Details Share Post
Group: Administrators Posts: 13K, Visits: 108K	The syntax in your /anchors attribute is invalid. You need to use the <likert>'s /buttonvalues attribute in addition. You can find many examples via the forum's search facilities, such as e.g. https://www.millisecond.com/forums/Topic3849.aspx?Keywords=buttonvalues#bm3851. Further details can be found in the documentation.
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jmb242	jmb242 posted 11 Years Ago ANSWER Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 7, Visits: 11	Hi Dave, Thanks that helped. I am still having an issue though - now my Likert scale is going off the computer screen. I've tried messing with the anchor width (taking it down to 5%, and then I have words all overlapping on one another) and up to 25% (where it is still going off the page). Just can't get it right. Any tips? Here is my code: <likert minik> / anchors = [1="disagree strongly"; 2="somewhat disagree"; 3="disagree slightly"; 4="don’t know/not applicable"; 5="agree slightly"; 6="agree somewhat"; 7="agree strongly"] / stimulusframes = [1 = minik] / mouse = true / numpoints=7 / buttonvalues = [1="-3"; 2="-2"; 3="-1"; 4="0"; 5="+1"; 6="+2"; 7="+3"] / anchorwidth = (25%) / position= (50, 80) </likert> Thanks!
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Dave	Dave posted 11 Years Ago ANSWER Post Details Share Post
Group: Administrators Posts: 13K, Visits: 108K	Try line breaks? <likert minik> / anchors = [1="disagree strongly"; 2="somewhat disagree"; 3="disagree slightly"; 4="don’t know/ not applicable"; 5="agree slightly"; 6="agree somewhat"; 7="agree strongly"] / mouse = true / numpoints=7 / buttonvalues = [1="-3"; 2="-2"; 3="-1"; 4="0"; 5="+1"; 6="+2"; 7="+3"] / anchorwidth = (15%) / position= (50, 80) </likert>
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jmb242	jmb242 posted 11 Years Ago ANSWER Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 7, Visits: 11	Nevermind, I have successfully figured this out. Thanks! JM
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