With the Scales question type, participants can rate statements on a scale. This is good to use if you have questions with numeric answers, want the audience to rate something, or if you want to generate statistics that you can use for analyzing trends and tendencies.
Pro tip: Let the audience rate several statements on the same scale!
Create a Scales question
This is how you create a Scales question in Mentimeter:
Add a new slide by click the +New Slide button
Choose the Scales slide type
Enter in your question by clicking on the header section of the slide canvas:
4. Enter statements to rate by clicking on the response section of the canvas and typing in the statements on the tab to the right:
Additional functionality
Show statement average
This feature allows you to get an average of all statements in the Scales slide. To enable it, select the body of the slide on the left, then toggle the "Show statement average" option in the right side panel. The average for all statements will then appear below:
Change labels and values
If you click on the body of the Scales slide and bring up the Edit tab, under “Dimensions” you can edit the low and high labels as well as change the values. You can also click “See mid values” to add customized mid values labels.
When moving the slider to any of the high, low or mid value labels on your Scales question, you will see auto-suggestions appear in the voting view. Those enable tooltips for the voters; helping them to interpret different numerical values in a Likert scale.
Change result layout
The default way of displaying the results is as Sliders, but you can also present your results as a Spider Chart (also called Radar Chart). To change the visualization of your Scales slide, you can click on the body of the slide to bring up the Edit tab and click one of the options underneath Visualization type. Please note, that this can only be used for Scales questions with three or more statements.
You can also change the layout of the results while presenting by opening the presentation menu (hover over the bottom left of the screen) and clicking on "Show layouts" from the left-side toolbar:
Get responses on your Scales question
When you get a response, it will slide from left to right corresponding to the participant's answer. You will also see the distribution of responses as a graph just above the specific lines. With more responses, the number in the circle will show the weighted average of all the responses. You can read more about responding on Scales questions here.
If you want to see the exact distribution of responses, you can move your mouse cursor over the lines. This is not possible with the Spider Chart layout.
If you want to take the rating to the next level, let your audience rate items in two dimensions instead of one! Use our 2 by 2 Grid in order to do that.