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Practice survey with variables?
Hello,
I'm trying to create a survey that will present a layer depending on how the questions were answered. I've set it up so that each answer adds a numerical value to a variable, and then a but...
Andrew,
Another problem with your project is that on every slide, you are adding to a variable. In general, adding to a variable is very vulnerable to incorrect totals. If the learner wants to change their mind, and returns to a previous slide to make a different (or the same choice) the new choice will be added to the total, and the final score will be inaccurate.
A far more reliable method is to keep track of all the choices, then at the end evaluate them.
But what if the learner selects 2,1,2,1,1? The total is 23. Are they still a good fit for Project Manager? So maybe just a certain total is not the best option.
See the attached sample for one way to solve these problems.
On every other slide, you ask one either/or question, and give two options. On slide three, you ask three questions, but still give only two options. Questions one and three should be moved into question two, becoming examples of aesthetically appealing slides. See "just the way you like it" on slide four for an excellent example of how to do that.
Thank you very much, this is exactly the sort of helpful advice I needed. I had a strong feeling I had been going about it the wrong way, but no idea how to do it better! One last question- is there a catchall i can do to have a layer show up when clicking a button if the variables were selected in an order I hadn't anticipated? Instead of noting all the total different combinations and stating what will happen with each of them, is it possible to have a it set so that if my other conditions weren't met, then a different layer shows up?
