I think it's really cool that you include the option to allow multiple responses to questions (checkboxes). However, I don't agree with the way the results are displayed.
In the marketing research field (my career for the past 15 years), you do not display "accept-multiple" results the same way you display "accept-one" results.
"Accept multiple" should not display a percentage of the total answers. They should display a percentage of the total people who answered.
For example, if you were to ask this question:
What color widgets do you own?
...and these were the answer choices, with the number of responses for each in the parens to the right:
Black (2)
White (2)
Red (2)
Blue (2)
...and there were a total of 4 people who voted, the results display should look like this:
Black (50%)
White (50%)
Red (50%)
Blue (50%)
...instead of this, which is how they're calculated now:
Black (25%)
White (25%)
Red (25%)
Blue (25%)
You see, the idea is to measure what percentage of each color is owned by the sampled population.
There are cases where you would want to display them as UBB currently does (example 2), but example 1 shows how these types of questions are displayed the vast majority of the time.
Any comments on whether or not you'd consider changing this in a future version?
Thanks.
[This message was edited by Charles Capps on September 05, 2002 at 02:49 PM.]
