Interesting, thanks! Something which probably isnât obvious without reading the methods (pages 125-127) is that study participants were recruited through church mailing lists and Facebook groups. So the interpretation of that statistic is âof the people who answer surveys from their church, 92% report at least moderate engagementâ.
âModerate engagementâ is defined as an average of a bunch of questions, but roughly it means someone who attends church at least once per month.
I think that definition of âmoderate engagementâ is a bit higher than âwilling to answer surveys from my churchâ (as evidenced by the people who answered the survey but did not report moderate engagement), but itâs not a ton higher, so Iâm hesitant to read too much into the percentage who report moderate engagement.
I felt like âhigh engagementâ was enough above âwilling to answer a surveyâ that some value could be gotten from the statistic, but even there Iâm hesitant to conclude too much, and wouldnât blame someone who discounted the entire result because of the research method (or interpreted the result in a pretty different way from me).
If we want to compare it to Benâs EA estimates: I guess one analog would be to look at people who attended that weekend away but also answered the EA survey five years later. Iâm not sure if such a data set exists.
Interesting, thanks! Something which probably isnât obvious without reading the methods (pages 125-127) is that study participants were recruited through church mailing lists and Facebook groups. So the interpretation of that statistic is âof the people who answer surveys from their church, 92% report at least moderate engagementâ.
âModerate engagementâ is defined as an average of a bunch of questions, but roughly it means someone who attends church at least once per month.
I think that definition of âmoderate engagementâ is a bit higher than âwilling to answer surveys from my churchâ (as evidenced by the people who answered the survey but did not report moderate engagement), but itâs not a ton higher, so Iâm hesitant to read too much into the percentage who report moderate engagement.
I felt like âhigh engagementâ was enough above âwilling to answer a surveyâ that some value could be gotten from the statistic, but even there Iâm hesitant to conclude too much, and wouldnât blame someone who discounted the entire result because of the research method (or interpreted the result in a pretty different way from me).
If we want to compare it to Benâs EA estimates: I guess one analog would be to look at people who attended that weekend away but also answered the EA survey five years later. Iâm not sure if such a data set exists.