One of the major difficulty in writing good survey questions is getting the wording right. Even slight wording differences can confuse the respondent or lead to incorrect interpretations of the question. Here, I outline some questions you can ask about how you worded each of your survey questions. The survey author has to always be on the lookout for questions that could be misunderstood or confusing.
Some terms are just to vague to be useful.
Here's one of my favorites. We don't think about the assumptions behind our questions. For instance, if you ask what social class someone's in, you assume that they know what social class is and that they think of themselves as being in one. In this kind of case, you may need to use a filter question first to determine whether either of these assumptions is true. Be sure that, if it does, you have specified the time frame precisely.