{"id":1371,"date":"2025-05-12T11:19:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T11:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8091\/how-do-i-interpret-the-results-of-a-card-sorting-study\/an-overview-of-all-contents-in-card-sorting-results\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T07:26:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T07:26:43","slug":"overview-of-content","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.uxtweak.com\/help\/card-sorting-results\/overview-of-content\/","title":{"rendered":"An overview of all contents in Card Sorting results"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"text-block\">You analyze the results of your Card Sorting study through different views, each providing a different lens for looking at your data. Here&#8217;s a brief summary of all contents of the Results:<\/p>\n\n\n<h3 id=\"overview\" class=\"heading-block\" tabindex=\"0\"><a href=\"\/help\/card-sorting-results\/tab-overview\/\">Overview<\/a><a class=\"copy-link\" title=\"Copy link\" data-id=\"overview\">&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/help.uxtweak.com\/wp-content\/themes\/uxtweak\/public\/assets\/images\/icons\/link.svg\" alt=\"Copy link\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n<p class=\"text-block\">The overview tab serves to quickly check on the state of your study. It shows you things like the number of respondents and how long it takes the respondents to complete the study.<\/p>\n\n\n<h3 id=\"respondents\" class=\"heading-block\" tabindex=\"0\"><a href=\"\/help\/card-sorting-results\/tab-respondents\/\">Respondents<\/a><a class=\"copy-link\" title=\"Copy link\" data-id=\"respondents\">&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/help.uxtweak.com\/wp-content\/themes\/uxtweak\/public\/assets\/images\/icons\/link.svg\" alt=\"Copy link\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n<p class=\"text-block\">The Respondents tab lists all of your respondents and allows you to view all the details of their participation (personal details, questionnaire answers, how they sorted the cards, etc.). You can also filter your respondents or select which ones should be included in the analysis.<\/p>\n\n\n<h3 id=\"export\" class=\"heading-block\" tabindex=\"0\"><a href=\"\/help\/card-sorting-results\/tab-export\/\">Export<\/a><a class=\"copy-link\" title=\"Copy link\" data-id=\"export\">&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/help.uxtweak.com\/wp-content\/themes\/uxtweak\/public\/assets\/images\/icons\/link.svg\" alt=\"Copy link\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n<p class=\"text-block\">In the export tab, you can generate a custom PDF export of your study results that can include anything that you see in the web results. You can also create CSV exports for external data analysis.<\/p>\n\n\n<h3 id=\"share\" class=\"heading-block\" tabindex=\"0\"><a href=\"\/help\/card-sorting-results\/tab-share\/\">Share<\/a><a class=\"copy-link\" title=\"Copy link\" data-id=\"share\">&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/help.uxtweak.com\/wp-content\/themes\/uxtweak\/public\/assets\/images\/icons\/link.svg\" alt=\"Copy link\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n<p class=\"text-block\">The share tab is where you can set up access to the results of your study to people outside of your team.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 id=\"analysis\" class=\"heading-block\" tabindex=\"0\">Analysis<a class=\"copy-link\" title=\"Copy link\" data-id=\"analysis\">&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/help.uxtweak.com\/wp-content\/themes\/uxtweak\/public\/assets\/images\/icons\/link.svg\" alt=\"Copy link\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n<p class=\"text-block\">The analysis tab provides multiple ways to look at the Card Sorting results:<\/p>\n\n\n<h3 id=\"questionnaire\" class=\"heading-block\" tabindex=\"0\"><a href=\"\/help\/card-sorting-results\/analysis-questionnaire\/\">Questionnaire<\/a><a class=\"copy-link\" title=\"Copy link\" data-id=\"questionnaire\">&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/help.uxtweak.com\/wp-content\/themes\/uxtweak\/public\/assets\/images\/icons\/link.svg\" alt=\"Copy link\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n<p class=\"text-block\">Shows you a breakdown of answers to your questionnaires.<\/p>\n\n\n<h3 id=\"cards\" class=\"heading-block\" tabindex=\"0\"><a href=\"\/help\/card-sorting-results\/analysis-cards\/\">Cards<\/a><a class=\"copy-link\" title=\"Copy link\" data-id=\"cards\">&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/help.uxtweak.com\/wp-content\/themes\/uxtweak\/public\/assets\/images\/icons\/link.svg\" alt=\"Copy link\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n<p class=\"text-block\">Shows for each card what categories it was sorted into and how many times, to tell you where the card was perceived to belong the most.<\/p>\n\n\n<h3 id=\"categories\" class=\"heading-block\" tabindex=\"0\"><a href=\"\/help\/card-sorting-results\/analysis-categories\/\">Categories<\/a><a class=\"copy-link\" title=\"Copy link\" data-id=\"categories\">&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/help.uxtweak.com\/wp-content\/themes\/uxtweak\/public\/assets\/images\/icons\/link.svg\" alt=\"Copy link\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n<p class=\"text-block\">Shows for each category what cards were sorted into it and how many times to tell you which cards were perceived to belong to this category most. In open card sort, this is where you standardize categories from different respondents.<\/p>\n\n\n<h3 id=\"comments\" class=\"heading-block\" tabindex=\"0\"><a href=\"\/help\/card-sorting-results\/analysis-comments\/\">Comments<\/a><a class=\"copy-link\" title=\"Copy link\" data-id=\"comments\">&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/help.uxtweak.com\/wp-content\/themes\/uxtweak\/public\/assets\/images\/icons\/link.svg\" alt=\"Copy link\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n<p class=\"text-block\">Respondents can leave comments throughout the entire study. Here, you will find a summary of people&#8217;s comments.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 id=\"open-and-hybrid-card-sort-analysis\" class=\"heading-block\" tabindex=\"0\">Open and Hybrid card sort analysis<a class=\"copy-link\" title=\"Copy link\" data-id=\"open-and-hybrid-card-sort-analysis\">&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/help.uxtweak.com\/wp-content\/themes\/uxtweak\/public\/assets\/images\/icons\/link.svg\" alt=\"Copy link\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n\n<h3 id=\"standardization-grid\" class=\"heading-block\" tabindex=\"0\"><a href=\"\/help\/card-sorting-results\/analysis-standardization-grid\/\">Standardization grid<\/a><a class=\"copy-link\" title=\"Copy link\" data-id=\"standardization-grid\">&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/help.uxtweak.com\/wp-content\/themes\/uxtweak\/public\/assets\/images\/icons\/link.svg\" alt=\"Copy link\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n<p class=\"text-block\">A bird&#8217;s eye view of the distribution of cards into standardized categories. It is useful for verifying the standardization done in Categories.<\/p>\n\n\n<h3 id=\"similarity-matrix\" class=\"heading-block\" tabindex=\"0\"><a href=\"\/help\/card-sorting-results\/analysis-similarity-matrix\/\">Similarity matrix<\/a><a class=\"copy-link\" title=\"Copy link\" data-id=\"similarity-matrix\">&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/help.uxtweak.com\/wp-content\/themes\/uxtweak\/public\/assets\/images\/icons\/link.svg\" alt=\"Copy link\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n<p class=\"text-block\">This visual help displays the percentage of respondents who agree whether a pair of cards should be coupled in the same category together.<\/p>\n\n\n<h3 id=\"dendrogram\" class=\"heading-block\" tabindex=\"0\"><a href=\"\/help\/card-sorting-results\/analysis-dendrogram\/\">Dendrogram<\/a><a class=\"copy-link\" title=\"Copy link\" data-id=\"dendrogram\">&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/help.uxtweak.com\/wp-content\/themes\/uxtweak\/public\/assets\/images\/icons\/link.svg\" alt=\"Copy link\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n<p class=\"text-block\">The dendrogram is a tree diagram where cards are clustered by how the respondents sorted them into categories and how many respondents agreed.<\/p>\n\n\n<h3 id=\"rca\" class=\"heading-block\" tabindex=\"0\"><a href=\"\/help\/card-sorting-results\/analysis-rca\/\">RCA<\/a><a class=\"copy-link\" title=\"Copy link\" data-id=\"rca\">&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/help.uxtweak.com\/wp-content\/themes\/uxtweak\/public\/assets\/images\/icons\/link.svg\" alt=\"Copy link\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n<p class=\"text-block\">RCA tries to find such answers from respondents that were supported by the highest number of other respondents and looks for distinct answers that represent different approaches to card sorting.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 id=\"closed-card-sort-analysis\" class=\"heading-block\" tabindex=\"0\">Closed card sort analysis<a class=\"copy-link\" title=\"Copy link\" data-id=\"closed-card-sort-analysis\">&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/help.uxtweak.com\/wp-content\/themes\/uxtweak\/public\/assets\/images\/icons\/link.svg\" alt=\"Copy link\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n\n<h3 id=\"results-matrix\" class=\"heading-block\" tabindex=\"0\"><a href=\"\/help\/card-sorting-results\/analysis-results-matrix\/\">Results matrix<\/a><a class=\"copy-link\" title=\"Copy link\" data-id=\"results-matrix\">&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/help.uxtweak.com\/wp-content\/themes\/uxtweak\/public\/assets\/images\/icons\/link.svg\" alt=\"Copy link\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n<p class=\"text-block\">A bird&#8217;s eye view of the distribution of cards into categories. It is useful as a map to find out where the respondents thought the cards belonged.<\/p>\n\n\n<h3 id=\"popular-placements-matrix\" class=\"heading-block\" tabindex=\"0\"><a href=\"\/help\/card-sorting-results\/analysis-popular-placements-matrix\/\">Popular placements matrix<\/a><a class=\"copy-link\" title=\"Copy link\" data-id=\"popular-placements-matrix\">&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/help.uxtweak.com\/wp-content\/themes\/uxtweak\/public\/assets\/images\/icons\/link.svg\" alt=\"Copy link\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n<p class=\"text-block\">This table displays how many respondents placed a card within a category as a percentage. It also clusters the cards based on what category they were sorted into most often.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You analyze the results of your Card Sorting study through different views, each providing a different lens for looking at your data. 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