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It seems problematic to me that your survey asks people to give the same zero rating for techniques they've never tried (and which may or may not be effective) and techniques they've found to be totally ineffective.
It seems much preferable to me to have no answer given for techniques that haven't been tried.
Actually, the directions to the survey state that a 0 is to be marked for those techniques not tried and a 1 is to be marked as the least effective ranking. To quote: "If you have not tried a technique, rate it as a 0. If you have tried a technique, rate its effectiveness from 1 to 5, with 1 being not very effective and 5 being very effective.".
It's a design limitation of Google docs that I had to format it this way, since with radio buttons there's no way to unchoose marking any answer if you accidentally mark a technique you haven't tried.
Oops. I apologize for not reading carefully enough. I was looking at the text on the left-hand side of the 0-5 options ("0 - Haven't tried / 1 - Not very effective") and parsing that as "0 - haven't tried/not very effective".
I guess many other people made the same mistake I did though, since nobody else corrected me, and my comment was voted up and received another comment that presupposed that what I said was true.
Yeah, definitely may not have been clear enough. Given the responses I've gotten so far, though, I think I'll be revising the survey and doing a repost after asking for input from LW on the content.
My guess is that it's a limitation of Google Docs.
The form/survey functionality of Google Docs allows a question to be required or not, so people could just not answer questions related to techniques they've never tried.