Creating Questions

🚨 Things to Remember Throughout 🚨

  • Group questions into meaningful blocks, considering randomization requirements later on.
  • After any change you make do not forget to click PUBLISH on the top right corner.

Block & Question Naming Conventions

  • Your blocks and questions should have meaningful, short names that use camel case or snake case (Attention_Check, AttentionCheck)
    • Meaningful short names (like Attention_Check) will be helpful when you download your data, since question names will be column names in your data sheet (e.g., Excel).
    • Do not leave spaces or use special characters (other than . or _) in the names since R will have a hard time reading these1.
    • You might benefit from creating a document that indexes how each question is labeled on Qualtrics if multiple colleagues are working on the data analysis separately2.

🚨Recode Values🚨

  • Make sure to check how Qualtrics coded the values/ choices in your question by clicking “recode values”

  • If you forget to do this, always make sure to check what the values were coded as after you download your data set

  1. Spaces and special characters are the mortal enemies of R. ↩

  2. This will rescue you from playing “What on earth is variable XG_45b??” six months from now. ↩