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Answer Choice Explanations are descriptions that explain the meaning of each Answer Choice in a Multiple Choice Question. These explanations are visible to survey respondents.

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Add an Explanation to an Answer Choice

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  • Imagine you have a Multiple Choice Question with 5 answer choices.

    • The question is What is your level of confidence

    • and the Answer Choices are a numerical scale of 1 to 5

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  • By adding an Explanation you can ensure that respondents know for example that 1 means Very Low and 5 means Very High

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  • The Explanations are saved within that set of Answer Choices

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Create new Explanations when using Shared Answer Choices

  • Imagine you are creating a second question, What is your level of resilience and you want to use a 5 point scale for that as well

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  • Rather than creating a new scale, you can reuse the Answer Choices from your previous question by

    • Selecting Start with an existing set of Answer Choices

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    • Choosing a set of Answer Choices from the dropdown list

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    • Picking What is your level of confidence

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    • This causes the Answer Choices to automatically appear as well as their Explanations

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    • If you want to use different Explanations, select Create new descriptions

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    • This lets you change the Explanations

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Reuse existing Explanations when using Shared Answer Choices

  • Imagine there’s a third question you want to ask: What is your level of interdependence and you want to use the same 5 point scale that you’ve used previously

  • Once again you can choose Start with an existing set of Answer Choices

  • And then select What is your level of confidence

  • But because there are now two sets of Explanations there is a dropdown list

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  • In the dropdown list you can choose between the first and second sets of explanations

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    • This is what it would look like if you chose the explanations from What is your level of resilience

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  • So you can either choose from the existing Explanations or you could click Create new description again to create a new Explanation

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