{"slug":"survey-question-bias-check","name":"Survey Question Bias Check","version":"1.0.0","updated_at":"2026-10-26T21:00:53.066Z","use_when":"Checks a numbered list of survey questions, with their answer options, and reports only the questions whose wording would bias the answers, one line per problem with a fixed code, the question number, why it biases and a neutral rewrite - or exactly No findings. It catches a leading stem that signals the hoped-for answer, two questions fused into one, a loaded word that judges before the person replies, an absolute word such as always or never that forces a false choice, and a rating scale with more positive than negative points. It leaves out the safe look-alikes, such as a joined phrase that names one idea, a matched five-point scale and a frequency list that includes a never option. Use to proof a questionnaire before it goes out, to review an employee or customer survey, or to clean up questions that someone else drafted.","not_for":"Sampling, question order effects, survey length, translation of questions and the analysis of results. It reads a numbered list of questions with their options and judges only the wording written there.","languages":["en"],"tags":["survey","questionnaire","question-wording","bias","leading-questions","research"],"category":"research","category_url":"https://aiskills402.com/categories/research","keywords":["survey questions","questionnaire","loaded word","rating scale"],"faq":[{"q":"Phrase joined by the word and: split or leave?","a":"Leave it when it names one thing, such as terms and conditions or a health and safety briefing. Split it when two separate things share one answer, such as the price and the delivery speed."},{"q":"Which of the five rules come from the public guide?","a":"The leading, double-barreled and loaded-word rules follow the guide's examples. The guide says nothing about absolute words or about the balance of a rating scale, so those two rules are the skill's own, and its text says so."},{"q":"How was the skill tried out?","a":"On a customer-service list with a tagged question, a fused one and an always question, on an office list with a charged word and a lopsided rating scale, and on a clean list. Sonnet and Haiku answered each list once."},{"q":"What does a clean questionnaire return?","a":"One sentence, No findings., and nothing more. Questions without a problem never appear in the answer; a problem is a single line with the question number, the code, the reason and a neutral rewrite."}],"examples":[{"lang":"en","model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","input_excerpt":"Q1. How satisfied are you with the terms and conditions of the contract?\n    Very dissatisfied / Dissatisfied / Neither satisfied nor dissatisfied / Satisfied / Very satisfied\nQ2. Don't you agree that our support team resolves problems quickly?\n    Yes / No\nQ3. How satisfied are you with the price and the delivery speed of your order?…","output_excerpt":"Q2 — LEADING — the \"don't you agree\" tag and the word \"quickly\" signal the answer the asker hopes for — ask how quickly the support team resolved your problem, from very slowly to very quickly\nQ3 — DOUBLE-BARRELED — price and delivery speed are two separate things, so one satisfaction rating cannot fit both — ask two questions: how satisfied are you with the price, and how satisfied are you with…"}],"page_url":"https://aiskills402.com/skills/survey-question-bias-check","markdown_url":"https://aiskills402.com/skills/survey-question-bias-check.md","image_url":"https://cdn.aiskills402.com/og/skills/survey-question-bias-check/cbab667d.png","related_url":"https://api.aiskills402.com/v1/skills/survey-question-bias-check/related","purchases_count":null,"tested":{"date":"2026-10-26","strong":{"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5 (Claude Code alias \"sonnet\")","verdict":"Right on all 3 cases, read by hand. On the customer-service list it flagged the tagged question, the fused price-and-delivery question and the always question, each with a neutral rewrite, and said nothing about the terms-and-conditions item or the usage-frequency item. On the office list it found the charged canteen word and the lopsided rating scale, and left out the matched agreement scale and the health-and-safety item. On the clean list it answered exactly No findings, so a never option and an easy-or-difficult stem passed."},"weak":{"model":"claude-haiku-5-5 (Claude Code alias \"haiku\")","verdict":"Right on all 3 cases, read by hand. It found the same problems as the strong model on both planted lists and kept every safe look-alike out. On the clean list it answered exactly No findings. Its rewrites are longer, and one of them offers a scale of its own, which the check allows because the line still starts with the question number and the code."},"note":"Light test: three cases (two planted, one clean), one run per model; no comparison without the skill. The three inputs were written by us; each planted one carries a safe look-alike and neither planted case has a comment pointing at the defect. Facts come from a public survey-methodology guide, read on 26 October 2026; the absolute-word and scale-balance rules are our own. There are no owner-measured facts.","report_url":null},"price_usd":"0.01","price_micro":10000,"size_bytes":6057,"sha256":"b5f31dc741427f8563a052d4d4292cab238d8ae95f9c29648cbc8c33e7cb577c","outline":["What the public guide says, as read on 26 October 2026","The answer","The codes","Rules","Work in this order","Short example"],"license":{"summary":"Perpetual, non-exclusive; use and modify for yourself incl. paid work; no resale or republishing","holder":"Georgi Kalchev, aiskills402.com","url":"https://aiskills402.com/docs#license"},"buy_url":"https://api.aiskills402.com/v1/skills/survey-question-bias-check/file","redownload_url_template":"https://api.aiskills402.com/v1/purchases/{token}","mcp_tool":null,"payment":{"protocol":"x402","scheme":"exact","asset":"USDC","selling":true,"network":"base","network_caip2":"eip155:8453","pay_to":"0x8e37022edcf0f21cf3c9f93fee9d4d32519f36f4","facilitator":"cdp"},"seo_title":"Survey Question Bias Check for Questionnaires","seo_description":"Checks survey questions for leading wording, double-barreled items, loaded words, absolutes and lopsided scales, with a rewrite. Pay $0.01 once, in USDC.","versions":[{"version":"1.0.0","date":"2026-10-26","changelog":"# Changelog\n\n## 1.0.0 — 2026-10-26\n\nFirst release, written in the second light-test batch of 26 October 2026 (three cases, price $0.01). The idea is ours; no foreign skill was opened, facts come from a public survey-methodology guide (see notes/ideas.md). Output: see the skill description.\n\nTest: three cases written by hand (two planted, each with a safe look-alike, one clean control), one run on Claude Sonnet and one on Claude Haiku, no run without the skill, no iteration on the skill rules after the runs. `test/control.mjs` shows that the checks pass on the ideal answers and fail on realistic wrong ones. See `test-summary.json` for the verdicts read by hand.\n"}]}