- The "ranking" item type can now draw from previous responses to other questions for its stimuli. For example, thoughts from a prior thought-listing called "tl1" could be ranked on some dimension by entering <tl1_01>, <tl1_02>, <tl1_03>, etc., into the labels for the ranking item. The procedure follows from other item types (e.g., scale items) that have long been able to use prior responses as stimuli using the <...> syntax.