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Frequenty Asked Questions
Christiaan Verwijs edited this page Mar 21, 2026
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Columinity hides a lot of statistical complexities from users. Sometimes, this results in seemingly odd results. The pages below explain such scenarios:
- Why are there seemingly duplicate questions?
- Why are higher‐order factors all trending up or down while team effectiveness goes in the other direction?
- Why are lower‐order factors all trending up or down while the higher‐order factor is trending in the other direction?
- Why can a personal score for a factor fall outside the range of scores for that team?
- Why is the score for a core factor not the mean of its lower‐order factors?
- Why is the average score not always in the middle of the range?
- How reliable are the results for small and large teams?
Diagnose your team with our scientifically validated survey, inspect the results together, and improve with our evidence-based feedback.
- Setting up a survey for a new team
- Analyzing results in the Team Report
- Setting up a repeat survey for your team
- Subscribing to Columinity
- Enabling stronger anonymity protections
For Teams Dashboard
- Managing teams
- Analyzing teams
- Managing users
- Invite participants for snapshots
- Integrate with other platforms
For Coaching Center
- Managing organizations
- Analyzing organizations
- Managing coaches
- Apply custom branding
- Getting started with our API
- Single Sign-On (SSO)
Enduring change initiatives
- How questions link to factors
- How we calculate factor scores
- How we aggregate results
- How "Statistical Settings" impact the results
- How the "Impact" scores are calculated
- How the 15‐85 percentiles work
- How not to fool yourself with statistics
- Frequenty asked questions & oddities