Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2-2016
Publication Source
Survey Practice
Abstract
This study examined a novel paper-based ranking system (called the BINS format) that was designed to address two limitations of traditional ranking formats. This new system allows respondents to: 1) assign ties to ranked alternatives and 2) indicate distance between ranked alternatives. Participants reported high satisfaction with the ability to express ties using the BINS format, and preferred to use a ranking format that allowed for ties over a format that did not. Two versions of the BINS format (a numbered continuum and an unnumbered continuum) were compared to examine participants’ perception of the distance between ranked alternatives. When a numbered continuum was used, participants saw the relationship between ranked alternatives as both multiplicative and divisible; conversely, participants using the unnumbered continuum did not see either relationship. This lends support to the notion that participants perceived the numbered BINS format as having equal psychological intervals.
ISBN/ISSN
2168-0094
Document Version
Published Version
Copyright
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Publisher
American Association for Public Opinion Research
Volume
9
Issue
3
Peer Reviewed
yes
eCommons Citation
Timbrook, Jerry and Moroney, William F., "Ranking: Perceptions of Tied Ranks and Equal Intervals on a Modified Visual Analog Scale" (2016). Psychology Faculty Publications. 26.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/psy_fac_pub/26
Comments
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