(English) Drag-and-Drop Versus Numeric Entry Options: A Comparison of Survey Ranking Questions in Qualtrics

The Authors

• Shaun Genter
  

  Shaun Genter is a survey methodologist in the Center for Behavioral Science Methods at the U.S. Census Bureau. He earned his PhD in Sociology from the University of Maryland where he studied social psychology, racial attitudes, and survey methods.

• Yazmín García Trejo
  

  Dr. García Trejo is a social science researcher and a member of the language and cross-cultural team at the U.S. Census Bureau’s Center for Behavioral Science Methods. Her expertise is on survey methodology, pre-testing, and communications research, with a focus on hard-to-count populations. She holds a PhD in Political Science and M.A. degrees in Survey Research and Latin American studies from the University of Connecticut.

• Elizabeth Nichols
  

  Elizabeth Nichols is a founding member of the Usability Lab in the Center for Behavioral Science Methods at the U.S. Census Bureau. She conducts usability studies, cognitive testing, focus groups, and other experiments focusing on survey measurement error. She has an M.S. in Statistics from George Washington University.