Conversion analysis: directions
I just couldn’t resist showing this tiny piece of a non-profit website.
Wouldn’t a check box next to “Please don’t show my name in your printed thank you material?” do a better job? Now that I’ve looked at it 15 times, it makes perfect sense but when I first read it, I felt like I had to parse all the negatives.
Robbin Steif
LunaMetrics
January 8th, 2007 at 10:41 pm
I’m not aware of any really strong argument for checkboxes instead of radio buttons in yes/no situations.
Rather, what I think always needs to be kept in mind is that labels should be verbose. In the checkbox situation, the directions are, or at least should be, the same as the label. In the example you post, there’s no reason you couldn’t have one line with a radio button that says “Yes, please include my name in printed material” and another line that says “No, don’t include my name in written materials.”
So basically, you can clean this up but still keep the radio buttons, IMHO.
January 9th, 2007 at 8:35 am
Sorry, I didn’t mean to imply that the check boxes were better than the radio buttons, simply that “yes” was a poor answer to a negative question. Your solution is a good one. Robbin