How to gather survey data for Metrisim using Pollfish

Published by Staff author in Implementing theory · 31 March 2026
Tags: Pollfish, Metrisim, questionnaire, setup, gathering, data

Pollfish is a survey tool that includes its own survey respondents / audience. By using Metrisim's experimental design generator, you can easily create a questionnaire and set this up within Pollfish using the in-built AI, without having to spend hours using a GUI interface to program the questionnaire. Here are some suggested steps to take:

STEP 1

After generating your experimental design in Metrisim, click download and unzip the file. Inside you will find

a draft questionnaire, as in the example below.

STEP 2

Paste this into Pollfish's AI builder and ask it to create a questionnaire using the provided

text. Ask that the 0 to 10 profile ratings use the slide question type and they range from 0 to 10. You can also use

any other question type that saves answers as a 0 to 10 numeric.

STEP 3

Pollfish will then generate a questionnaire for you. Edit this as needed.

STEP 4

Test the survey by clicking on preview.

STEP 5

Usually the first question would be used for screening, so change to the relevant category and set Pollfish logic to end survey if they do not select the relevant category.

In this case - coffee shop.

STEP 6

You can also download the questionnaire from Pollfish as MS Word document if you prefer to review it in that way.

As always, test to ensure this will achieve the desired result by running a pilot / soft launching with a few respondents first. Export to Excel to ensure the format is right (numeric ratings from 0 to 10 are required by Metrisim's estimator module.