[BNM] Radio button advice

[Alfonso Comitini]

Hi Robert

if you haven't solved your radio buttons dilemma, try this link:

 http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20040927.html

Hope it helps,
Alfonso

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----- Original Message ----
From: Robert Douglas <rob at anucreative.com>
To: Brighton New Media <bnmlist at brightonnewmedia.org>
Sent: Monday, 31 March, 2008 6:59:21 AM
Subject: [BNM] Radio button advice

So we've got an email form with three questions answerable by radio buttons.
Thing is we want to give these radio buttons special behaviour:
1. We don't want to sway people's answers by defaulting any. 
2. We want people to be able to not answer at all.
3. We don't want to complicate the form by adding unnecessary words/options

As an (purely fictitious) example:
I am .happy .sad
I am .rich .poor
I am .human .animal

Two possible options/scenarios we're thinking are: 
1. Nothing selected; User selects radio button; User changes mind and can
then unselect radio button (this would be done using javascript)
2. Add another option to each question: .I don't want to answer this
question

Now, just how wrong are these options (purist vs pragmatist)?

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