{"id":109109,"date":"2020-08-18T03:00:40","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T10:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.questionpro.com\/blog\/?p=109109"},"modified":"2023-08-29T10:57:42","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T10:57:42","slug":"setting-the-start-position-of-sliding-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.questionpro.com\/blog\/setting-the-start-position-of-sliding-scale\/","title":{"rendered":"Avoid order bias by setting the start position of slider scale"},"content":{"rendered":"

QuestionPro offers 40+ question types<\/a> you can use to create a survey. They range from basic questions like multiple-choice, matrix questions<\/a>, constant sum<\/a> to advanced types like NPS<\/a>, Conjoint, MaxDiff, and more. The <\/span>slider question<\/span><\/a> is one of the graphical question types. It allows respondents to rate an option on a textual or numerical scale by dragging a slider.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

To offer the best experience to our users and respondents, we have enhanced the slider question with more options to customize the scale.<\/span><\/p>\n

What’s new?<\/span><\/h2>\n
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  1. Change the default start position of the slider<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The interactive sliding scale starts from the left end by default for all the left-to-right languages. For the right-to-left languages, it starts from the right.<\/span><\/p>\n

    However, the default slider might introduce order bias. Respondents tend to drag and drop the slider that is close to the starting point. It leads to biased data and insights that do not much value.<\/span><\/p>\n

    To negate the bias, you can configure the slider to start in the middle of the slider scale. You can set the slider for both n<\/span>umeric slider and text slider questions.<\/p>\n

    For numeric sliders, you can set the slider start position from one of the below:<\/span><\/p>\n