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We were asked to refine the quality of our responses by avoiding respondents that go through the entire questionnaire marking the "Don't know" option to all or almost all questions.
Our first guess was to make an equation question with a code that would sum up these answers (the code to "dont know" is '88' and our number of questions is 40). But I am not sure how to write this code and whether this is the best path.

How can we filter out these participants? Could we place these as a quota?

Thank you very much!

Of course you have to count them.
But unfortunately you neither answered the questions at the beginning nor you mentioned the question type of these questions.

So it is difficult to help.

But generally:
Single punch questions: {countif("99",Q1.NAOK,Q2.NAOK,...)}
Questions with subquestions, like arrays: {countif("99",that.Q1.NAOK,that.Q2.NAOK,...)}

And of course you can screen out participants who answered "DK" too often.
So please, answer these questions and send a lss export of your survey (or a prototype of your survey).

Then we will proceed.

Joffm

 

Thank your reply, Joff! And sorry, my bad:
1. Your LimeSurvey version: LimeSurvey Community EditionVersion 5.3.6 220321
2. We have list (radio), array and multiple choice questions to be considered.

Also, one of our questionnaries to be fixed in this regard is already active, so we can no longer add an equation question to sum up. In this particular case, is it still possible to filter out only through quota?  

 

Hi,
sorry,
I do not see any "99" in this survey. Were you confused and it is "88"?
Which questions do you want to take into account?

Furthermore:
1. The answer options of M2 are missing.
(By the way: Do all students of TUE use this same design of the question. Ask your fellow students.)

2. The hidden multiple question is not set by an equation.

3. The subquestions of "ratings" refer to a question "products" which is missing.

4. What is your idea of question "Ratings"?
You have a code "88" in the second scale. What for?
You know, once clicked "Don't know" in the second scale, you never can remove it.
At least you should have a second scale with "Yes", "No" , "DK".
And then you may set it to "mandatory".

Please, revise and send a working example.

But to count these "DKs". I take the code "88" of Ratings into account.
{sum(M2_SQ001_88.NAOK,countif("88",Q2.NAOK,that.Ratings.sq_1))}

Joffm

Thanks a lot, Joff!

I had to quickly send you a model survey, just to try to illustrate the sort of questions we had in our real one.

This code as you sent it is already enough to solve our doubts on our first case! We will rewrite it including all questions that come with a DK answer option.

Now, for the second one, the survey that is already active (and also contains different question types), can we still filter them out through quotas or other tool?

I do not see any "99" in this survey. Were you confused and it is "88"?

No Joffm, you were confused. She mentioned the 88 from the beginning. You came up with the 99.

Our first guess was to make an equation question with a code that would sum up these answers (the code to "dont know" is '88' and our number of questions is 40).

Getting old, he?

Now, for the second one, the survey that is already active (and also contains different question types), can we still filter them out through quotas or other tool?

If you can't add any equation question anymore, because the survey is active, then I don't see how to do this from within the survey. Either you deactivate (save the responses so far as a backup), then add the questions, then reactivate and import the previous response table when activating. But you can't really exclude anyone that has already completed the survey. You will have to do so afterwards.

But what is the point of filtering them out if they need to go through the survey anyway as you coun't the don't knows? I mean if you screen someone out almost at the end of a survey, you could always just let them make it to the end and then exclude those from the results later, before analyzing. I think quotas and screenouts only make sense for the first couple of questions (must admit, I didn't look at your LSS, also because it doesn't seem to be working properly anyway).

Hahaha well noticed, Holch!

Indeed the lss model was quite bad. I will send a less messy one next time (it is the least we, the ones begging for help, can do, right?!)

Anyway, thanks a lot for your time as always, both of you, Holch and Joffm!

She mentioned the 88 from the beginning. You came up with the 99.

Really?
Yes, I know, my glasses get worse and worse.

Getting old, he?

Better: Being old

Better: Being old

I know, I know. Wanted to be at least a little bit polite within my cheekyness. 

Have a great weekend back there, enjoy the summer. I hope it is not too hot.