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I am writing a survey which presents people with scenarios which they are meant to identify with. The survey is being written in a gendered language (ie a language in which verbs are gendered). For each scenario presented, each participant will randomly receive either the control scenario, or the experimental scenario (a scenario in which one word is different from the control), and then rate some response to the scenario. Is there a way, maybe with Javascript, to edit the gendered language based on participant response to gender, without creating 3 branches (m, f and non-binary) and rewriting the entire set of scenario couplets two or even 3 times?  

You could assign a class to each gender and include verbs for all three genders:

<span class="genMas">masculine</span><span class="genFem">feminine</span><span class="genNB">non-binary</span>

Add Custom CSS to hide elements for all three classes:

.genMas, .genFem, .genNB { display:none; }

Set an embedded data field for the gender class (e.g., genClass = genMas).

Add JavaScript to the survey header to show the appropriate gender class:

<script>
Qualtrics.SurveyEngine.addOnload(function() {
  jQuery(".${e://Field/genClass}").show();
});
</script>

 

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