Pooled research
How is discipleship going across churches like ours, and how is that kept anonymous?
Pooled research is entirely optional. An Admin joins the program in Settings by choosing your church tradition and accepting the research agreement; nothing is contributed before that, and an Admin can withdraw at any time. Withdrawing stops future answers qualifying and removes your past contribution from the pooled results where it can still be recalculated.
Once your church is enrolled, every survey adds a separate optional choice for the person answering. It is genuinely optional — skipping it does not stop their answers counting for your own church results. Only answers where the church is enrolled and the person opted in are ever pooled.
- Question
- Pick one scored question that is part of the pooled set. Written comments are never included, so nothing anyone typed leaves your church.
- Demographic
- View averages by age, gender, marital status, how long people have attended, or how often they attend.
- Church tradition
- Each row also shows the tradition the answers came from, so you can see how a group compares across traditions rather than across named churches.
- People and churches
- Every row says how many people and how many churches it is built from, so you can judge how much weight it carries.
A group is only shown when it has at least 10 people from at least 3 different churches. Anything thinner is withheld rather than shown, which is what makes it impossible to work back to a church or a person. Churches are never named, ranked or compared by name — not in the app and not in anything published.
Example
People who have attended under a year score noticeably lower on belonging than long-timers, and the same gap shows up across traditions. That is a question worth taking to your own newcomers, not a verdict on your church.
Where to click: Listening → Pooled research