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checkboxes or yes/no questions

A debate has arisen about the value of using checkboxes vs. yes/no questions. A checkbox is a yes/no question, essentially. But imagine a set of questions about what you do, for example, sports activities. Is it better to have "Do you swim? - Yes No" (using radio buttons for yes and no), "Do you bicycle? - Yes No", etc., etc., or "What sports activities do you do:" followed by Swim, bicycle, etc., with checkboxes next to them.

I am asking because I recall that research has been done, though I can't locate it, on difficulties with answering yes/no questions.

Location of selection checkboxes on lists

Hello,

I am currently working on a web application for sourcing and spend analysis
and I am toying with an issue that I thought might be interesting to open to
the forum and get input. The product uses a lot of lists and usually has
check boxes on every row with a 'select all' checkbox on the top with
associated action buttons also on top of the list. The lists so far have
been only as wide as the screen in the ideal screen resolution for which the
product is designed and the header with the action buttons always remained
in view and out of the vertical scroll area.

When a widget is just not right ( was RE: Re-ordering rows in a table.)

Hey there,

Andrei said, why would you ever use a checkbox for a radio button? Sandeep
said he was doing it for the wrong reasons.

I recently designed an app where I did just that.

Why?

Well, I made the decision w/ my peers b/c while the behavior is wrong, we
discovered:
1. this behavior is actually not well understood by our end-users
2. that radio buttons all stacked up in a vertical row just looks really
weird. It creates a warping effect in attempting to read the labels next
them and the clarity gets a lost.