How to show one individuals rating of a 5 point likert scale

Question

I am working on a 5 point rating system. The input is quite set and would consist of 5 radio buttons with an underlying histogram of the number of ratings from other users:

Now I have another touchpoint, where I only want to display/ouput the rating of a single person. I don't want to use stars, since on the input side radio buttons are used. On the other hand I don't think radio buttons are a good way to display the rating.

I was thinking about using blocks similar to the histogram, that fill like stars. What do you think about it?

And now comes the tricky part: I need a similar output layout for another rating, that ranges from -2 to +2 and not 1 to 5 like the one above. Do you have ideas how to handle this?

Answer 1

Some preliminary remarks:

1. Won't showing the rating of other users influence your measurement?
2. Please use 'official' Likert scale labels https://www.extension.iastate.edu/documents/anr/likertscaleexamplesforsurveys.pdf

About your first issue "I only want to display/ouput the rating of a single person.". It depends a bit on who is viewing it, but in general I think using radios is fine, as it resembles the way the data was entered. If you use a different format, the user should interpret the different format. In doing so the user can make a mistake + it is unnecessary overhead.

About your second issue: I would again just go for the radios. In case you would like to stick to your blocks, I would opt for having 0 in the middle and gray, -1 and -2 to the left and red, +1 and +2 to the right and green. But again, imho sticking to radios is better.

Hope this helps!