Assigning a numerical value to the answers of a multiple choice text field

I have searched and searched thru a million articles but there does not seem to be a simple way to do this, and I hope like heck that I am just overthinking it. I tend to fall back on years of coding and completely miss a simple answer when doing this
kind of thing so I hope someone can help.
I'm developing a scorecard. I have a list that has a form on it that asks a series of questions on it. Some are yes/no.
I want to assign the numerical value of "1" to "yes", and "0" to "No".
This is so that when I create the actual scorecard, I can add up all the answers and generate a calculated score.
Example:
Was this incident properly classified?
[Dropdown]
Yes
No
Do I need an extra column assigning the values? Can I assign the values within the column itself? Any assistance will be really helpful.

there are several options:
- calculated column with something along the lines of =IF([dropdowncolumn] = "YES", 1, 0)
- separate lookup list with values
- if you're using infopath, your column could be numeric, and just use a DropDown as the visualization, and populate the DDL with key/values of "Yes"/1 and "No"/0 (though in this case, when viewing the list as a native grid, the column
would only show 1/0, not "yes / no"
- depending on how you're creating the scorecard, use a yes/no (boolean) column and just convert during the calculation
lots of options come to mind.
Scott Brickey
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