Prioritized poll response

[burningbright]

Title:
Prioritized poll response

Area:
Polls

Summary:
It'd be nice to have a poll style available that lets you prioritize or order your response.

Description:
I know this is possible, because the company I work for uses it in their online training tests: a poll where the first box you click becomes "1", and the second box you click becomes "2", and so on. With a "reset" option in case you mess up or change your mind before hitting the "submit" button.

I wouldn't know the first thing about how to implement it, I'm afraid. But I can see a number of uses for it, as a finer-tuned alternative to multiple tick-boxes, where if people agree with multiple options on the poll they can indicate that they agree most strongly with some options over others, for instance.

Poll #4422 Prioritized poll response

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 41

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Should be implemented as-is.
27 (65.9%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
8 (19.5%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
5 (12.2%)

(Other: please comment)
1 (2.4%)

Comments

[ratcreature]

There is a poll kind to show whether you agree with something more or less strongly, i.e. the scale poll, but you can rank things on the same level there. So your poll with a definite order is a bit different.

[pseudomonas]

This sounds like a variant on the suggestion for runoff voting (or perhaps that is a variant on this). I'm not sure how results would be displayed in this version.

[matgb]

Yes, and is pretty much my 'with changes'. Without something that the prioritisation is going to do (runoff, condorcet, whatever) there isn't much point to it and I've no idea how to display it.

But runoff voting generally is a Good Thing, and I'd love to see someone come up with a way to implement Condorcet within a web interface.

[aedifica]

+1

[gchick]

This sounds like a variation on a rank order question set, which is a pretty common thing in polling systems: my "with changes" is that I'd rather go with that than something that depends on the order in which you clicked. I know that when I'm ranking choices I do an awful lot of "do I really like that one better than that one" dithering, which is at least half the fun; and I don't even want to think about the question order biases possible in assuming that when someone goes through a long list ticking all the tickies it implies something about preference.

So, to sum: ranking question type yes, ticking order no!

[susanreads]

this

[turlough]

Pretty much my reaction too.

[zing_och]

+1

[katieastrophe]

if people agree with multiple options on the poll they can indicate that they agree most strongly with some options over others

What happens if someone agrees with multiple options equally?