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# Configure and compare concept tests

> Choose concepts, rotation and exposure, test each route, and compare results using the right bases.

Use a concept loop to ask the same questions about several ideas, products or versions. Decide whether each participant sees one concept or several before building the questionnaire.

## Add concepts to a section

**1. Define the concepts**

Open the section's settings and select **Add concepts**. Name the loop and each concept distinctly. Attach the stimulus each concept needs. A variant group presents one version of its idea to each respondent.

**2. Choose who sees what**

Set **Concepts per respondent** and the rotation. **Balanced** balances exposure and position; **Random** draws a random order; **Fixed order** keeps the authored order. Balance within an earlier single-choice answer or categorical variable when the design requires it.

**3. Set exposure**

Choose whether the concept appears on every question, on the first then through a button, through a button only, on click, or as a timed first impression. Timed exposure requires media. Check video playback requirements separately.

**4. Add the repeated questions**

Write the questions in the looping section. Each repeats for the concepts assigned to that respondent. Use a question's concept-visibility setting when its stimulus needs different treatment.

A loop can take its items from an earlier answer instead of a fixed concept list. Nested loops repeat the questions for combinations of the outer and inner items. Name every loop so its references remain understandable in the questionnaire, Responses and charts.

### Show the concept at once or on a click

A question's **Concept on this question** setting offers, among others, **Show**, **As a button** and **On a click**:

* **Show**: the concept is visible above the question as soon as the page opens. The respondent has nothing to do.
* **As a button**: a **View again** button under the question opens the concept in a window. Opening it is optional: the respondent can answer and continue without it.
* **On a click**: the concept stays hidden behind a **Show** button above the question. The respondent cannot continue until they select it, even after answering.

To let respondents look at the concept again only if they want, choose **As a button**.

On a heatmap set to **On a click**, the image or text to mark appears only after the click, so marking time is counted from the click rather than from the page opening.

## Compare concepts directly

Use the side-by-side concept display on a matrix when the participant should rate concepts together. Use an A vs B task for head-to-head choices. Picture cards change how choices are presented; they do not turn an ordinary selection into a concept loop.

A later question can take a loop's concepts as its options. Check that its source actually supplies the items the comparison needs, especially after filters and conditional assignment.

## Test the design

Save and test the assigned concepts, their order, conditional images, exposure and repeated questions. Exercise each cell of a monadic design, in which a respondent sees one concept, and more than one route through a sequential design. Test Back and translated concept names. Inspect the recorded concept order and the answers in Responses.

Balanced rotation aims to distribute exposure; it does not guarantee identical completed sample sizes. Screen-outs, conditions and incomplete responses can change the achieved bases.

In a monadic design with quotas, balance the rotation within the quota questions so that each profile is split evenly across the concepts. See [Set quotas for a monadic or split test](https://support.deepfield-ai.com/recruiting/quota-management.md#set-quotas-for-a-monadic-or-split-test).

## Read the comparisons

In Charts, a repeated question is read by concept. Check the base for each concept, the filters and weighting before comparing it. A monadic assignment variable that simply repeats the concept columns is omitted from the plan's comparison table.

When one respondent contributes several concept answers to a table axis, the table distinguishes answer counts from respondent counts. These repeated answers are not independent people: significance tests and confidence intervals are not computed for that repeated-record table. See [Read statistical significance](https://support.deepfield-ai.com/analysis/reading-significance.md).

![Review each concept, the rotation and the questions repeated for it.](https://mintcdn.com/deepfieldai/dXwxAZySujI3sywX/images/building-your-study/concept-testing.png?fit=max\&auto=format\&n=dXwxAZySujI3sywX\&q=85\&s=67a99e4b7eeb0e02f89053140cc1ef73)

Review each concept, the rotation and the questions repeated for it.

## Related

* [Add stimuli and concepts](https://support.deepfield-ai.com/building-your-study/stimulus-materials.md)
* [Configure conditions and routing](https://support.deepfield-ai.com/building-your-study/advanced-logic.md)
* [Build an analysis plan](https://support.deepfield-ai.com/analysis/analysis-plan.md)
* [Build a crosstab](https://support.deepfield-ai.com/analysis/crosstabs.md)


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