Regarding a customer survey rating scale- why would a rating scale of 1-5 be better than a rating scale 1-10?

4 Responses to “Regarding a customer survey rating scale- why would a rating scale of 1-5 be better than a rating scale 1-10?”

  • P J:

    Fewer choices, less confusion and more of a willingness for the takers of the survey to actually take it with less to look through.

  • Bob:

    How would breaking satisfaction into 10 levels be more meaningful than 5 levels?

    If you get a 1 as “extremely dissatisfied” why split it up into 1 = “extremely extremely dissatisfied” and 2 = “extremely dissatisfied”?

  • NT:

    it makes it more simple and less options to choose from…hope that helps

  • Bostep:

    It depends on what results you are looking for. The more choices gives the customer a larger range to choose from, therefore may cause the results to be lower than what you would like. Just like a good-neutral-bad scale would most likely get you a lot of neutrals, a 1-5 scale would get you more 3’s and a 1-10 scale might get you more 4’s. So instead of a 75% or 50% satisfaction rating you might end up with a 40%. Just as how the question is asked, the scale can be changed to better your survey results.