In writing my survey for my research question, I learned the importance of demographic questions, the convenience of utilizing Likert-Scale questions, and the most effective ways to write open-ended questions. Demographic questions narrow down the population of interest for our survey questions. Likert-scale question results will allow us to make conclusions based off of how many people "agree or strongly agree," or "disagree or strongly disagree," as they are closed-ended questions that make up the majority of our surveys. Open-ended questions also have to ask questions in a way that doesn't allow for an extremely broad array of various answers.

One challenge I found in writing my survey questions was avoiding bias in my open-ended question. I was asking questions under the assumption that a respondent felt a certain way. In my specific example, I was assuming the respondent agreed that there were barriers, stereotypes, and biases women face in the field of political science, but I had to adjust my question to consider respondents who may not agree with expectations I might have for my results. Removing bias and recognizing where bias my lay because of my positionality is an important part of the research process and analyzing results from surveys.