Why You Should Avoid Numeric Response Scales in Surveys

Why You Should Avoid Numeric Response Scales in Surveys — They Seem Scientific, but They Are Actually Ambiguous and Difficult to Report

If you read our article a few weeks ago about COVID-19, there were probably several statistics we cited that you (or maybe a colleague) misinterpreted. That’s because instead of reporting the percentage of respondents who did or said something, we reported the mean of all survey respondents’ answers to a numeric scale. We had no…