Kaj_Sotala comments on Lesswrong 2016 Survey - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 30 March 2016 06:18:19AM *  2 points [-]

I notice that the fact that I can't see all the questions on one page makes me feel more averse towards taking this survey. It makes me feel like there's a potentially infinite amount of content to be answered, lurking out of sight, whereas if it was all one page I'd always be clear on how many more questions there were left.

This format also makes it hard to answer questions out of order, skipping a hard one until I'm done with all the easy ones.

Comment author: Elo 30 March 2016 06:41:48AM 4 points [-]

this is a trade off that we make for partially completed survey data. On the one hand; the total number of questions was mentioned at the start (maybe could have been highlighted more), and there is a progress bar at the top of each page. I agree that this is not idea; does the trade off make more sense now?

Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 02 April 2016 07:58:23AM 1 point [-]

this is a trade off that we make for partially completed survey data.

Not sure what you mean by that?

But thanks for mentioning the progress bar, I didn't notice it at first. That helps somewhat.

Comment author: Elo 02 April 2016 10:41:34PM 1 point [-]

we get partially completed data from every page submitted; if the survey is not completed.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 04 April 2016 08:40:04PM 0 points [-]

It took me a while to notice the progress bar.