This may reflect a general expectation on the part of the subjects that an experiment concerned with risk would involve more obviously dangerous situations, thus they have left themselves 'headroom' on the response scale.

A respondents answer to an open-ended question is coded into a response scale afterwards.

Four types of response scales for closed-ended questions are distinguished:

The DES-II contains the same questions but with a different response scale.

This aims to reduce the effect of statistical artifacts, such as the number of response scales or skewness of variables leading to items grouping together in factors.

A visual analogue scale (VAS) is a psychometric response scale which can be used in questionnaires.

The response scale for the intellectual disability module of the WHOQOL: 5-point or 3-point?

Weighing anchors:verbal and numeric labels for response scales.

Multiple pieces of research have demonstrated that the scale of responses can have a major effect on the results, and some response scales are better than others.

A respondent's answer to an open-ended question can be coded into a response scale afterwards, or analysed using more qualitative methods.