Hi lcava1!

You can accomplish this using the skip to feature in the questionnaire files or in the responses.xls file. I'm also going to assume that you are able to use scale response items for all of these questions, most likely with just two options: "yes" and "no."

The primary difference is whether your skips depend on the answer to each individual question or the answers as a set. If you want to or can direct people from one question to another based on their responses to the question that came right before it, you would just use the skip to feature. Just enter the variable name that you would like a response choice to lead to in the "skip to" field next to the "text label" field for that answer choice.

If you instead wanted to direct people to a particular question based on if their answers to a set of items, you could do this by using the responses.xls file. I won't go into all of the specific details about this option here; you can find detailed informaiton about it in the "Advanced Features" section of the MediaLab manual and an actual example in the folder named "Sample6 Advanced Features" in the Samples folder where you installed the MediaLab program files. In the responses.xls file you would include in your experiment folder you would need to create a calculated value using Excel conditional logic. Let's say that you have 10 questions named item1 through item10 in a MediaLab questionnaire file. You would put all ten of those item names in variable column of the responses.xls file. You would then make a new variable, let's call it "total," in the responses.xls file. In the value cell of the responses.xls file directly to the right of total, you can calculate the total number of yes or no responses. In the skipto field next to that value field, you could then create a formula of which variables in the MediaLab questionnaire files to direct participants to.

Please don't hesitate to ask if you have any other questions. Good luck!