Labelling and direction of slider questions: results from web survey experiments
Mingnan Liu
SurveyMonkey
Introduction
The slider question is a unique question type for web surveys. A slider question displays a horizontal or vertical line with a bar on the line. Respondents need to click and drag the bar to the desired position on the line in order to register their answers.1This study reports findings from two web survey experiments on the comparison of measurements between slider questions and radio button multiple-choice questions with different labelling techniques, and a comparison of survey estimates between two directions of...