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However, the output of the slider can be consider as interval variable at least and at most ratio variable
Examples of ordinal variables include:
socio economic status (“low income”,”middle income”,”high income”), education level (“high school”,”BS”,”MS”,”PhD”), income level (“less than 50K”, “50K-100K”, “over 100K”), satisfaction rating (“extremely dislike”, “dislike”, “neutral”, “like”, “extremely like”).
It's up to you to define the scale level. You have to adjust it in your statistc tool, like SPSS.In contrast, the Likert scale gives only ordinal variable. The interval and ratio variable are very useful and meaningful in statistical tests, such as correlation and regression.
Correct, but very frequently we use tests that require interval scale on these questions as well.In my opinion, as soon as you apply your scale, especially including the text, not just the numbers, it is a ordinal scale.
<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"> $(document).on('ready pjax:scriptcomplete',function(){ // Identify this question var thisQuestion = $('#question{QID}'); // Define the text strings var tipTexts = { 1: 'strongly disagree', 2: 'slightly disagree', 3: 'neutral', 4: 'slightly agree', 5: 'strongly agree' }; $('input:text', thisQuestion).on('slideEnabled',function(){ var thisItem = $(this).closest('li'); // Insert custom tooltip $('.tooltip-inner', thisItem).addClass('tooltip-inner-1 hidden'); $('.tooltip', thisItem).append('<div class="tooltip-inner tooltip-inner-2">'+tipTexts[$(this).val()]+'</div>'); // Listener on slider $(this).on('slide slideStop', function(event) { // Handle dynamic tooltip text $('.tooltip-inner-2', thisItem).text(tipTexts[$(this).val()]); }); }); }); </script>
<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"> $(document).on('ready pjax:scriptcomplete',function(){ var ticksArray = [ [1, 'strongly disagree'], [2, 'slightly disagree'], [3, 'neutral'], [4, 'slightly agree'], [5, 'strongly agree'], ]; insertSliderTicks('{QID}', ticksArray); }); /* Insert Slider Tick Marks */ function insertSliderTicks(qID, ticksArray) { var thisQuestion = $('#question'+qID); $(thisQuestion).addClass('with-inserted-ticks'); $('input:text', thisQuestion).on('slideEnabled',function(){ var thisSlider = $(this); var thisItem = $(thisSlider).closest('li'); var thisMin = $('.slider-handle:eq(0)', thisItem).attr('aria-valuemin'); var thisMax = $('.slider-handle:eq(0)', thisItem).attr('aria-valuemax'); var thisRange = thisMax - thisMin; $.each(ticksArray, function(i, val) { var tickRelativePosition = val[0] - thisMin; var tickPercent = (tickRelativePosition/thisRange)*100; // Insert tick marks $('.slider-handle:eq(0)', thisItem).before('<div class="inserted-tick left-'+tickPercent+'" style="left: '+tickPercent+'%">\ <div class="tick-text">'+val[1]+'</div>\ </div>'); }); }); } </script>
<style type="text/css">/* Slider Tick Marks */ @media only screen and (min-width: 768px) { .with-inserted-ticks .slider-container { padding-right: 50px; padding-left: 50px; } } .with-inserted-ticks .slider-item { margin-bottom: 50px; } .with-inserted-ticks .slider-container .help-block { margin: 25px 0 0 -20px; width: 40px; text-align: center; } .with-inserted-ticks .slider-container .help-block.pull-right { margin: 25px -20px 0 0; } .inserted-tick { position: absolute; top: 20%; height: 20px; width: 5px; margin-top: -5px; margin-left: -1px; background-color: #DDDDDD; background-color: green; } .inserted-tick.left-0, .inserted-tick.left-100 { background-color: transparent; background-color: green; } .inserted-tick .tick-text { position: absolute; top: 150%; width: 100px; margin-left: -50px; color: #000000; text-align: center; } @media only screen and (max-width: 768px) { .inserted-tick.left-0 .tick-text { margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; } .inserted-tick.left-100 .tick-text { margin-left: -100px; text-align: right; } } </style>