Metrics versus Survey Questions: 3 key points to understand the difference between them
Understand the difference between Metrics and Survey Questions
What this article covers:
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3 key points
1. Every metric can be reworded as a survey question
For example, Confidence is a Multiple Choice tracker (aka metric or Scale Indicator)
but it can be rewritten as the survey question: What is your level of confidence?
2. A metric’s Survey Question wording is displayed when a survey is being completed for one person
The Survey Question is displayed when the Complete Survey page loads in Only One Contact mode.
Only One Contact mode is the one you and your respondents see when you:
The Metric is displayed when you create a story using Several or No Contacts mode.
Several or No Contacts mode is the one you see when you:
Complete a survey in Several or No Contacts mode
Create a story from either a Progress Board or the Personal Progress widget on your Homepage
Create a story using the Timeline Update on either a contact’s profile page or from the Homepage
3. Metric titles are displayed everywhere else
In a story on the Homepage Newsfeed or in a Timeline
On a Progress Board
On a Project page
On an Album page
On a contact’s profile page