You can choose all answers on multiple choice questions, including choices that are mutually exclusive.

I’ll have to add that to my review checklist for next time. At least one of those was an error (ex. It doesn’t make sense to be in multiple levels of school currently). For others, it would be clearer to have a single selection with an option for “both about equally” (ex. Desktop vs. mobile usage).

a lack of definitions of terms. Is a town with 150 people “urban” because you have a street address and most people don’t work in another town/city, is it “suburban” because you need to go to a different town to buy groceries, or is it “rural” because that’s how most people who live there self-identify?

Many of those questions are intended to be self-identification, but we could have said that explicitly so that people aren’t uncertain. The reasons we didn’t have set definitions:

• People disagree on which definition/method is most appropriate, and we haven’t had the capacity to properly weigh the options / determine what value each definition might provide over the others.
• It seems that people are more curious about the self-identified groupings than the exact details. Both factor in to what the online experience is like, but the self-identification would play a larger role?
• Privacy. We want people to feel comfortable answering questions, without worrying that someone will figure out their real identity by aggregating the answers. It’s much harder to do that if it’s uncertain on why the user answered the way that they did.

Still, we are open to adding definitions to questions where it would make more sense to do so. For example, we added the fast.com and census/gov Canada links this time. Otherwise we can explicitly say that users should answer based on self-identification.

I appreciate the feedback! I’ve noted this down for next time

I also wasn’t sure how to answer, as a Canadian who lives abroad.

So this was actually intentional, and @[email protected] and I discussed how we could word it in order to let people pick the option that made the most sense to them.

I think a lot of people are in a similar situation as you, and would be making a similar choice

In Toronto, the question “Where are you from?” typically means what’s your country of origin. If you respond with “Canada” cause you’ve lived here for a long time, it’s often followed up with “Oh yes, but where are you really from?” In vaccuum that all sounds a bit problematic but in TO more than half of the population is foreign-born so it’s an acceptable request for multicultural exchange. 😅

Not an immigrant. Born Canadian with a Scottish last name. I have no Scottish culture in my life, just Canadian culture. Where I’m from: Canada. What is my ethnicity: Scottish. I think.

-3 kids. I have had three abortions. Two conventional, one in the 32nd trimester.

Ah

We will do some data cleaning afterwards

Good to know, we just added some warnings about it. We’re trying out FormBricks for the first time with this survey, and this is one of the issues we’ll need to look into

edit: We’ve made the links unclickable in the meantime. The census is long, so I didn’t want people to lose their progress near the end. The links are here:

• Speed test: https://fast.com/
• Ethnicity options: https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2021/ref/dict/app/index-eng.cfm?ID=a2_5
• Education options: https://canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/settle-canada/education/school-types/post-secondary.html

In this context, I always open links in a new tab because it’s quite a common issue with survey software.

Definitely! I meant to cross post it and didn’t get around to it

I’ll share it on [email protected] and maybe [email protected] in a moment, feel free to share it wherever you want to :)

Do you have any privacy settings / extensions that might be causing it? I’m seeing results come in from other people