Timeline for Wording: 0% or NO?
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| Aug 27, 2015 at 22:59 | comment | added | Max de Mooij | Devin, glad I could help! Teamwork with @RemarkLima ;-) | |
| Aug 27, 2015 at 21:10 | comment | added | Devin | Max, I changed the correct answer to RemarkLima because it's the exact answer. Anyways, your answer is great and certainly helped us | |
| Aug 27, 2015 at 12:42 | comment | added | Max de Mooij | In this case, the majority of the people will say "No weight loss" or "No weight change", as RemarkLima said. So the app should adapt to that. | |
| Aug 27, 2015 at 8:35 | comment | added | insidesin | This is a poor analogy. If your friend is a dietician and you ask how much % of weight loss you have, you might well expect 0%. This applies to the example above. | |
| Aug 27, 2015 at 4:39 | comment | added | coteyr | Assuming you are weighing people, if you want to want to keep the precision add precision. 0.01% weight loss or 0.01% weight gain is 0.05 pounds on someone at 500 pounds. At a closer 100-300 range it's 0.01-0.03 pounds. "no weight loss" can be a problem if you show a graph next to it. Specially if that graph auto scales. "No weight loss" next to a big graph that shows big peaks and valleys is worse then "0% weight loss". All that is to say, it's dependent to what your trying to say. If it's for a new use, I would display "No Data Yet" and some tips. For an established user, 0%. | |
| Aug 27, 2015 at 3:52 | vote | accept | Devin | ||
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| Aug 27, 2015 at 3:52 | comment | added | Devin | No, not really, just that it sounds more accurate while the undetermined option is... Well undetermined. Anyways, probsbly my OCD side acting up! | |
| Aug 27, 2015 at 1:29 | comment | added | Max de Mooij | Devin, do you mean that the "0% weight loss" may be more natural in some languages than "no weight loss"? | |
| Aug 27, 2015 at 1:22 | comment | added | Devin | I voted this up and tempted to mark this as correct answer. however, what about the perception of "broadness"? Maybe it's just my idea since in my language it's even more undefined | |
| Aug 26, 2015 at 23:36 | comment | added | Michael Lai♦ | +1 Nature language is always a good choice/default when it doubt. Of course, it should be tested to see if this assumption is correct. | |
| Aug 26, 2015 at 22:38 | history | answered | Max de Mooij | CC BY-SA 3.0 |