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{{Tool Infobox|Related topics=Mood}}

{{Tool Infobox|Related topics=Mood}}

State and symptom surveying is about user answering and filling out values for amount something has happened in the recently passed time period and current moment. Examples include tracking [[mood]] now, and back pain over the past 5 hours. This type of tool can be used to track almost anything but is vulnerable to the issues inherent in self assessment. Self questionnaire is a type of [[Manual input]].  

State and symptom surveying is about user answering and filling out values for amount something has happened in the recently passed time period and current moment. Examples include tracking [[mood]] now, and back pain over the past 5 hours. This type of tool can be used to track almost anything but is vulnerable to the issues inherent in self assessment. Self questionnaire is a type of [[Manual input]]. Compared to [[Tools for journaling, thoughts and note taking|journaling and note taking]], survey and assessment is less flexible but much easier to analyze. 

* [[MySymptoms|Mysymptoms]] Easy and quick to fill out but sampling is when user remembers to do it.  

* [[MySymptoms|Mysymptoms]] Easy and quick to fill out but sampling is when user remembers to do it.  

== Self Assessment ==

== Self Assessment ==

The whole act of manually trying to turn experience into a number. Not self report because you are not reporting to anyone but yourself and so other people's opinions do not matter. According to the wikipedia, this process is called something else<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambulatory_assessment</ref><ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experience_sampling_method</ref>, not self assessment<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-assessment</ref>.  

The whole act of manually trying to turn experience into a number. Not self report because you are not reporting to anyone but yourself and so other people's opinions do not matter. According to the wikipedia, this process is called something else<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambulatory_assessment</ref><ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experience_sampling_method</ref>, not self assessment<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-assessment</ref>.  

==== Timing ====

==== Timing ====

[[Personal Science (book)]] recommends simpler scales to stop user from wasting time on details. I recommend somewhat wider scales that split positive and negative into 'definitely' and 'extremely/unusually' and the neutral state into two to let user guess which side is more likely.  

[[Personal Science (book)]] recommends simpler scales to stop user from wasting time on details. I recommend somewhat wider scales that split positive and negative into 'definitely' and 'extremely/unusually' and the neutral state into two to let user guess which side is more likely.  

Ratings drift is when user adjusts to some new average over time and that average becomes their new neutral. Sometimes this is caused by user not being to set in the ways they measure the phenomenon and exactly what ratings mean what. This is a problem because it creates false positives for tests and makes comparing between long time periods difficult. It is possible to look at distribution, especially extremes and guess at what happened.

Ratings '''drift''' is when user adjusts to some new average over time and that average becomes their new neutral. Sometimes this is caused by user not being to set in the ways they measure the phenomenon and exactly what ratings mean what. This is a problem because it creates false positives for tests and makes comparing between long time periods difficult. It is possible, but not recommended, to look at distribution, especially extremes, and guess at how ratings may have drifted.

I recommend anchoring a fairly wide scale to specific set of physical characteristics like how disruptive it was to user's every day work. This is less ambiguous and therefore faster too. Also this means comparisons can be done between different phenomenon that have the same scale.  

'''Advanced scales'''.  

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