Survey design is hard.

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http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewfrancis/2015/09/24/survey-on-women-scientists-guides-respondents-to-sexist-conclusions/#2715e4857a0bb2c699a7f108

Question 10 is listed out of order in the analysis, but it’s the one that seems like the key to what follows: “And in your opinion, what abilities do women lack that stops them from becoming high-level scientists?” As University of Melbourne astrophysicist Katherine Mack pointed out, “the survey asks the respondent to start with the assumption that women are stopped from becoming high-level scientists by a lack of abilities, and then asks what abilities women lack.”

  Scientific surveys are an important management tool.

   Unscientific surveys are importantly misleading.