Scale-rating polls
A scale-rating poll asks each participant to choose one point from 1 to 5.
Use it for questions about confidence, agreement, readiness, satisfaction, or intensity. For example: “How confident are you that we can deliver this plan?”
Create a scale-rating poll
Follow Create a poll and choose Scale Rating Poll. Enter the question, then name the Low end and High end of the scale.
The scale always contains five points. The endpoint labels explain what 1 and 5 mean.
For a confidence question, you could use Not confident and Very confident. For agreement, use Strongly disagree and Strongly agree.
Write clear endpoint labels
A number has little meaning without a direction. Labels help participants interpret the scale in the same way.
Make the endpoints describe opposite ends of one idea:
- Not ready to Completely ready
- Very difficult to Very easy
- Low value to High value
Avoid combining two different ideas in one scale. If you need to measure confidence and urgency, use two separate polls.
What participants do
Participants select one of the five numbered points. Stormz submits the rating immediately.
See Change poll settings to control whether they may select a different point and when they see the distribution.
Open Poll to change the low and high labels. Scale-rating polls do not have named choices, choice metadata, or a good answer. If participants need to choose from written answers, use a single-choice poll.
Read the results
The result shows the percentage of responses at each point from 1 to 5. Taller bars represent points chosen by more participants.
Look at the shape of the distribution as well as the most popular rating. A group split between 1 and 5 needs a different conversation from a group clustered around 3, even if both have a similar middle.
Stormz shows the distribution rather than calculating an average score.
You can wait until everyone has responded before revealing the distribution. You can then present the result on Stage and ask participants what influenced their rating.