Hi, I have a project in which there are 106 statements that need to be randomly allocated to respondents so that each respondent will have 8 pair of statements against each other. So it is almost a MaxDiff with 8 tasks and 2 random statements in each task. But the answer categories are like a semantic differential, agree with left, neutral, agree with right.
So I tried to set it up like a semantic differential. With first randomizing the 106 statements and selecting the first 16 in the randomized list. I will then have a list of 16 statements. In the next step I selected the odd list numbers to category left (e.g. left_hand_list) and the even list numbers to category right (e.g. right_hand_list). So far so good, but when I tried to add the left hand constructed list to the left side of the semantic differential and the right hand constructed list to the right hand side I got an error message. It says that either of the left or right hand side lists may be constructed, but not both.
Does anyone have a fix for this? Would I need to do a free format question?
Thank you in advance for any assistance!