When using MS Forms for surveys, I was surprised that the answers to multiple-choice questions are visualized as a pie chart. This is not an appropriate visualization for this type of question and is very misleading – therefore, it is not used by default in similar tools.

To explain the problem, let’s take for example the following data

Participant_IDChoices1[A;B;C;D]2[A;B;D]3[A;C;E]

By Default, MS-Forms visualizes this in a pie chart which would look as follows:
A:30%; B:20%; C:20%; D:20%; E:10%.

This is very misleading, since 100% of respondents chose A, 66% chose B,C,D and 33% chose E.

For this reason, other survey tools visualize MultipleChoice Questions as Barchart, with one bar for each option.
E.g. in this case 5 bars:
A : 100% of respondents
B : 66% of respondents

C : 66% of respondents

D : 66% of respondents

E : 33% of respondents.

It would be great, if MS Forms could do this to – because the current pie-chart is not helpful and misleading.

I am sharing my feedback here, since the “feedback” option is greyed out.
If anyone can forward this to the product team, I would be very thankful 😊

​When using MS Forms for surveys, I was surprised that the answers to multiple-choice questions are visualized as a pie chart. This is not an appropriate visualization for this type of question and is very misleading – therefore, it is not used by default in similar tools.To explain the problem, let’s take for example the following dataParticipant_IDChoices1[A;B;C;D]2[A;B;D]3[A;C;E]By Default, MS-Forms visualizes this in a pie chart which would look as follows:A:30%; B:20%; C:20%; D:20%; E:10%.This is very misleading, since 100% of respondents chose A, 66% chose B,C,D and 33% chose E.For this reason, other survey tools visualize MultipleChoice Questions as Barchart, with one bar for each option.E.g. in this case 5 bars:A : 100% of respondentsB : 66% of respondentsC : 66% of respondentsD : 66% of respondentsE : 33% of respondents.It would be great, if MS Forms could do this to – because the current pie-chart is not helpful and misleading.I am sharing my feedback here, since the “feedback” option is greyed out.If anyone can forward this to the product team, I would be very thankful 😊  Read More

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