Timeline for answer to Boolean switch with a third state by Dipak
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| May 16, 2017 at 21:15 | comment | added | jamesdlin | IMO, the point of this answer is not to specify "Other" as the third option. It is that if there are three options, then there should be three radio buttons. Additionally, having three radio buttons instead of avoids confusion about which radio button is the selected one. | |
| May 15, 2017 at 19:28 | comment | added | user67467 | Upvoters, READ THE QUESTION. This is Not an answer to the question: the question asks for a FILTERING mechanism, not some data collection form. Filtering a list by condition "other" makes no sense. This answers and the others like it should not be so heavily upvoted. In fact, were we to filter by gender "other" we would get people who are specifically neither male nor female, which the OP has said they do not want | |
| May 15, 2017 at 16:08 | comment | added | user31389 | This is a good solution for @ShreyasTripathy problem if you change "other" to "any". | |
| May 15, 2017 at 13:51 | comment | added | user98223 | Bad option. It suggests, that people who are not willing to share that information are a kind of mutants... Or they are searching for Aliens, if it's in search... | |
| May 15, 2017 at 13:40 | comment | added | ymbirtt | I'm not convinced that this addresses OP's problem. As an analogy, I can filter my emails based on High/Medium/Low importance, but if I saw a query builder with buttons for "High/Medium/Low/Other" then I wouldn't intuit that the button reading "other" actually showed me all three. | |
| May 15, 2017 at 12:09 | comment | added | Shreyas Tripathy | @jazZRo - Basically "Neither" means you didn't want to pick any which means the user shouldn't have to do an action. At least, that is the ideal way. | |
| May 15, 2017 at 11:30 | comment | added | Matt Obee | This is the most intuitive and unambiguous solution. | |
| May 15, 2017 at 10:46 | comment | added | Roux Martin | The mechanism here is still valid - You could label the 3rd button "prefer not to answer" or anything else that suits your purpose. | |
| May 15, 2017 at 10:38 | comment | added | jazZRo | See also my comment at Alvaro's answer to understand why I ask this (it's not a rhetorical question though) | |
| May 15, 2017 at 10:25 | comment | added | jazZRo | @ShreyasTripathy; Why is "neither" a bad idea to have as an option UX wise? | |
| May 15, 2017 at 10:11 | comment | added | Shreyas Tripathy | I can't do that because technically the third state isn't other. It is more like neither which is never a good idea to have as an option UX wise | |
| May 15, 2017 at 10:04 | history | answered | Dipak | CC BY-SA 3.0 |