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Who’s next? Anyone? Anyone? (sound of crickets chirping)

So far, the Survey of Trinitarian Belief (background) has been a failure. We simply have not been able to get enough people to take it.

We chose as a target population seminarians, hoping that enough theology profs would want to participate with their classes in the survey (profs get to see the aggregate results for their classes, which makes a neat discussion starter). This hope was in vain. After maybe 2000 emails, and sending letters to literally every seminary in the US and Canada, exactly 9 profs registered courses, but most of them didn’t follow through, as we got only 20 seminarian respondents, from all their classes combined. This is disappointing - we hoped the profs would be curious enough to follow through. Not so.

So while we’ve had 200 respondents so far (as of 1/11/08), only 20 of those have been from our target population.

In sum, it looks like we’ll never get usable results without an injection of $, to provide some necessary motivation. Problem is, we have no funding whatever. Hopefully, I’ll be putting in a proposal or two for funding some time this spring.

In sum, the Survey site is still open, through at least Spring of 2008. (Simplified URL: http://trinities.org/survey) If you’re a seminary prof and want to join in, please contact me and I’ll send you step-by-step directions. If anyone has funding suggestions, please contact me. Everyone is welcome to take it, as we’re interested in more than seminary students, ultimately.

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