Christian Thought Survey collects responses from people who are currently or previously engaged in full-time ministry. The project is designed for public reporting, but participant contact information and identifying details should not be exposed in public files.
Contact information
- Email addresses are used for survey invitations, reminders, follow-up questions, and opt-out handling.
- Email addresses, names, and direct contact details are not included in public results files.
- Participants may unsubscribe from MailerLite emails or ask CTS to remove them from future invitations.
Survey responses
- Live survey items use 0-100 credence sliders unless a future survey clearly says otherwise.
- Weekly reports may summarize aggregate results, distribution shapes, and subgroup comparisons when sample size permits.
- Subgroups may be combined, suppressed, or withheld when reporting them could make participants identifiable.
Participant-nominated items
- Free-text suggestions are treated as administrative inputs, not as public survey responses.
- Suggestions may be corrected, combined, clarified, shortened, or withheld before appearing on a participant-nominated item ballot.
- CTS uses AI assistance to polish nominations for clarity, neutrality, credence-slider suitability, breadth, novelty, and pastoral or theological relevance.
- Each weekly ballot should contain 7 items. If fewer than 7 suitable participant nominations are available, CTS may add AI-created seed items to complete the ballot.
- CTS will not intentionally publish a suggestion in a way that identifies the participant who submitted it.
Data releases
- Public data releases will remove direct email identifiers before publication.
- Prepared datasets may group participant attributes such as role, tradition, or ministry experience to reduce identification risk.
- Raw exports should be reviewed before release for accidental identifiers in free-text fields or small subgroups.
The practical rule is simple: report results openly, protect participants carefully, and do not publish raw contact information.