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<blockquote data-quote="Squire Fulwood" data-source="post: 1342009" data-attributes="member: 44622"><p>I got a reply.</p><p></p><p>"</p><p>Dear ****</p><p></p><p></p><p>Thank you for writing in again. We understand your frustration with the multiple choice questions in the quiz, it is only supposed to be a quick and fun way of making people think about their lifestyle choices and where they could make some simple changes to be more healthy.</p><p></p><p></p><p>We ask people to choose from a range of healthier and less healthy options in order to generate their score for the eating section. The assumption behind this is that people who are able to identify the healthier options on offer know more about nutrition and are therefore more likely to make healthier dietary choices. For example, the question for cheese or potatoes should therefore be interpreted as "which of these types of cheese/potatoes is lower in fat?" rather than "which type of cheese/potatoes do you personally eat most often".</p><p></p><p></p><p>We did look at including a "none of the above" option in these questions in this version of the quiz, but implementing it is more complicated than it might at first appear. If we give people the option of not answering two out of four questions in that section of the quiz, we will be trying to calculate a score for eating based on data from four questions for some people and two questions for others. This means that some people are likely to get misleading results as we'd have to increase the weighting of the scores from the questions that people who only answer two give which would mean that the impact of any less healthy choices they made on the final quiz score would be disproportionately high.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Implementing that change to the scoring logic would also require expensive development resource that was not available to us in time for us to update the quiz this time around.</p><p></p><p></p><p>The upshot of all of this is that we apologise for causing you to feel that you are not able to participate in the quiz. Hopefully you can see from the detail we have provided in our response above that this was not our intention and that you can participate if you still want to - just see if you can pick the lower fat cheese from the list of four in that question.</p><p></p><p></p><p>We understand that many people have different diets and we will make updates to the quiz questions that reflect this in some way as soon as we are able to.</p><p></p><p></p><p>We hope this answers your question.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Squire Fulwood, post: 1342009, member: 44622"] I got a reply. " Dear **** Thank you for writing in again. We understand your frustration with the multiple choice questions in the quiz, it is only supposed to be a quick and fun way of making people think about their lifestyle choices and where they could make some simple changes to be more healthy. We ask people to choose from a range of healthier and less healthy options in order to generate their score for the eating section. The assumption behind this is that people who are able to identify the healthier options on offer know more about nutrition and are therefore more likely to make healthier dietary choices. For example, the question for cheese or potatoes should therefore be interpreted as "which of these types of cheese/potatoes is lower in fat?" rather than "which type of cheese/potatoes do you personally eat most often". We did look at including a "none of the above" option in these questions in this version of the quiz, but implementing it is more complicated than it might at first appear. If we give people the option of not answering two out of four questions in that section of the quiz, we will be trying to calculate a score for eating based on data from four questions for some people and two questions for others. This means that some people are likely to get misleading results as we'd have to increase the weighting of the scores from the questions that people who only answer two give which would mean that the impact of any less healthy choices they made on the final quiz score would be disproportionately high. Implementing that change to the scoring logic would also require expensive development resource that was not available to us in time for us to update the quiz this time around. The upshot of all of this is that we apologise for causing you to feel that you are not able to participate in the quiz. Hopefully you can see from the detail we have provided in our response above that this was not our intention and that you can participate if you still want to - just see if you can pick the lower fat cheese from the list of four in that question. We understand that many people have different diets and we will make updates to the quiz questions that reflect this in some way as soon as we are able to. We hope this answers your question. [/QUOTE]
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