bwallace/OpenMeta-analyst- — Issue #104: Give user 3 choices (binary, continuous, diagnostic) in New Dataset dialog.
Author: ptrow
Created: 2011-11-13 17:28:51+00:00
State: open
Labels: Medium Priority

The New Dataset dialog gives 2 choices for data type:

binary and/or continuous (in any case, this should be "or", not "and/or" - it has to be one or the other)

diagnostic

If you select binary and/or continuous, the next dialog (add new outcome) requires the user to select type of outcome - binary or continuous. This is an unnecessary (and confusing) step that would be avoided if the user had 3 choices in the previous dialog.

In "GUI Bloopers," this is called "exposing implementation to users" - see http://www.gui-bloopers.com/checklist.php.

Ethan brought this up in the last meeting, and I agree with his point.