documentation of questions with two-sided sliders: incorrect range

Question

Hi!

I discovered a small mistake in soscisurvey. I have used a 101-point scale on a two-sided slider. That means that the values ranged from 1 to 101, as is the default for these types of items. Yet, in the documentation (when I click on the printer symbol) and enable the variable view, it this is displayed as follows:

This caused some confusion for me, when I wrote my paper based on the data, as I assumed that I had used a 100 point scale when it was in fact a 101 point scale. As I use the pdf of the questionnaire/variable view as documentation, it could look to others accessing the document like I have described the scale inaccurately in the paper.

I wanted to point this out to you, as I use soscisurvey a lot and it would be great if this could be fixed, even though it appears to be just a minor error.

Comments

Thanks for this note. We will check and eventually fix that, and we'll keep you informed.

Answer 1

We cannot replicate the issue. Please go to the question TE04 in your list of qustions, and check what is set for "Detail Settings" -> "Slider" -> "Differentiation"?

If that says 100, but you find the code 101 in your data set: Could it be that someone changed this setting after you started data collection?

Comments

It looks like the mistake was on my part and that I mixed up two items (where one was supposed to be scored from 1 to 100 and the other from 1 to 101). Thank you for checking!