I assume they added those Alaska numbers to the U.S. numbers which would account for part of the % increase.
Not true. They correctly merged the Alaska stats with the 2006 USA figures before showing difference for 2007. No funny business there.
73% of JW's leave "The Truth." Jehovah's Witnesses 2008 statistics revisted
by Spook 20 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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SirNose586
I suggest you all get the report here: http://religions.pewforum.org/reports
You can download the pdfs by chapter or just commit to the whole thing. On the whole, it confirms a few stereotypes of the witnesses...no education....no money....no kids....and nearly two thirds of them will leave!
Also what I thought was interesting: 0.6% of all those surveyed claiming JW status say they were raised as witnesses. 0.5% of all surveyed say they converted to it (1.1%). 0.4% of all those surveyed say they left the JWs (1.1% - 0.4%). Net result: 0.7% of those surveyed are current witnesses. So for every person you bring in, they are most likely to leave again.
Another thing noted was that JWs are next to the worst in "marrying in the Lord." 65% of them marry another JW, but 35% do not. Only Buddhists are higher in not marrying in the same religion. The figures are much higher for Catholics, Hindus, etc.
As to current marital status, the national rate of currently divorced was 12%. The JWs were 14%.
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http://abc.go.com/daytime/theview/index
on left side of page
i posted this-- for 4mlyove actually started a thread last night on this.
The view
sherry co host
Losing your religion part 1-2 part 2 here specifically
sherry talks about JWS and why she left
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mavie
One more thing, the margin of error at the 95% confidence level is 7.5%. This means that if you asked a a random sample of 100 witnesses and ex-witnesses you would find that 56 to 70 of them had been born into the religion and then left as adults.
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BizzyBee
This means that if you asked a a random sample of 100 witnesses and ex-witnesses you would find that 56 to 70 of them had been born into the religion and then left as adults.
What does this mean? A larger sample size is needed.Well, it wouldn't really be a random sample. It would be people already selected out as being JWs or ex-JWs. And further, if they were JWs as opposed to ex-JWs, they wouldn't, by definition, have left the religion.
A larger sample wouldn't reveal much. What is needed is a deeper analysis of the statistics and what they mean - what trends do they indicate and why? What might the WTS do to respond to the trend, i.e., stop the hemhorraging?
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Shawn10538
I had an elder in the Beverly Hills congregation tell me sveral years ago that 70% of all Witnesses leave after x (can't remember how many years he said) number of years. I've been quoting him ever since. He told me he got the info "from the Society," but he didn't explain what exactly that meant. It sounds like the Society does a bit of its own statistics calculations.
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White Dove
I read and posted that % in another thread and it said that the 63% applied to those born in and leaving. It was a survey given and 63% of those born in and baptized said that they eventually left. That's what the article that I read said. It was done by Pew, as well.