Randomize Response Choices

Randomize Response Choices

Why Randomizing Response Choices Can Improve Participant Answers 

In experience sampling and ecological momentary assessments, randomizing response choices can help reduce response sets. Participants who receive response choices in the same order tend to respond consistently over time, often without much thought. By randomizing these choices, we change the survey's presentation, which can help alleviate this issue.

Response choices for Single Selection and Multiple Selection question types, including those within Groups or Question Groups, can be easily randomized with a single click, as indicated below.

How to randomize response choices

When the randomization option is configured, the button appears green in color (as shown in the screenshot below). 

 Randomize response choices for single selection question

The randomized response choices functionality is available within Question Groups at the individual question level, providing more flexibility in survey creation. In the example below, the multiple-selection question within the Question Group with this functionality configured will display a list of randomized response choices, with 'other' and 'none of the above' options appearing at the bottom on participants' mobile devices.

Randomize response choices for question group

On the mobile end, participants will see that the response choices are randomized each time they take the same survey.

Example screenshots for a single selection question
Mobile screenshot - randomized choices      Mobile screenshot - question with randomized choices

Example screenshots for a multiple selection question within Question Group
Mobile screenshot - multiple selection question with randomized choices      Mobile screenshot - example question with randomized choices