Enhancement - Webforms Likert Scale - Ability to substitute text values with numeric values and calculate

[davekaye]

This request is to be able to substitute numeric values for text strings that are in likert scales

Present state - admin creates a scale with text attributes with the order of the values
example
1|Poor
2|Fair
3|Good
4|Very Good
5|Excellent

Desired state would be for admin to be create a scale that would show the text label but could provide the option to populate numeric values for statistical computation (weighted average, mode, counts of answers)
1|Poor
2|Fair
3|Good
4|Very Good
5|Excellent

Excellent would populate a value of 5
Very Good would populate a value of 4
or alternatively, if an author wanted to set a range of 10, 9,8,7,6, the author could and these could appear in the downloadable or data or possibly (even better) as a calculated field…

[ewolfe]

This is already how the system works, you can populate any numeric value and it won’t affect the display order.

See this post for information about seeing averages appearing in a calculated field.

When downloading the way data you can configure the keys to be downloaded for calculations:

Hope this helps!