i have the goal of digitizing all wt statistical data, as much as possible, as far back as possible.user 88jm.
i recently did 1980 and i had a friend help me with 1979 and 1978.. do we have any volunteers to help me with previous years??.
it's a lot of work, but if you know excel you can make some macros that will speed up the work..
I have the goal of digitizing all WT Statistical Data, as much as possible, as far back as possible.
User 88JM
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_bzL2A4XRiodmp0OWpWUmJjaFU//
I recently did 1980 and I had a friend help me with 1979 and 1978.
Do we have any volunteers to help me with previous years??
It's a lot of work, but if you know Excel you can make some Macros that will speed up the work.
i gathered the data for the memorial partakers every year since 1935 (the first year they had data) until now.. the latest figures haven't been that high since 1954!.
this stat looks very bad in watchtower land because the decreasing # of partakers was given, for decades, as proof that the end was near!.
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I'd prefer the graph starting at zero on the Y axis.The graph like it is accentuates the rise in partakers since 2007. You can do it if you wish, I have shared the data in the link. (Just too tired to do it right now).
it seems most of the us growth is in spanish-speaking territory, and of course, there is growth in the nations where spanish is the predominant language.
most sites oriented around ttatt, are english-speaking.
there seems then to be a great need for translators...for instance, imagine if there was a spanish version of www.jwfacts.com.. unfortunately, i dont speak this language.
It shouldn't be necessary to translate the parts from a Spanish WT publication on jwfacts.I know that.
I would conrtact Paul with your ideas in a practical form.I am in constant contact with Paul. In fact, many times the English articles have been improved by my research. Things that Paul missed, things like that.
or advertise in more sitesThat site doesn't work anymore. I haven't been to the new Spanish forum, but it seems like it's single-issue, and I am already the admin of the largest Spanish exJW page on Facebook.
http://extj.com/
it seems most of the us growth is in spanish-speaking territory, and of course, there is growth in the nations where spanish is the predominant language.
most sites oriented around ttatt, are english-speaking.
there seems then to be a great need for translators...for instance, imagine if there was a spanish version of www.jwfacts.com.. unfortunately, i dont speak this language.
Three years later, there's over 20 articles translated and going now at a rate of about 1 per week!
http://www.verdadtj.com/
The articles translated are:
UN
Birthdays
Blood
1914
1925
1975
Why it's wrong to be a JW
Watchtower Scandals
Disfellowshipping
General Pamphlet
Growing up a JW
Jehovah in the NT
Fear and Mind Control
False Dates
How to Help Someone Come Out
Misquotes, Lies, Deception
Generation
Light Gets Brighter
Paradise
Organization
Governing Body
Faithful and Discreet Slave (in progress).
i gathered the data for the memorial partakers every year since 1935 (the first year they had data) until now.. the latest figures haven't been that high since 1954!.
this stat looks very bad in watchtower land because the decreasing # of partakers was given, for decades, as proof that the end was near!.
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When Tony and Goofery got their appointments in 2005, followed by the the baby, Mark Sanderson, in 2012, the org had to come up with a way to leave the door open a crackAnd that door was officially opened in 2007. http://www.jwfacts.com/watchtower/memorial-partakers.php
look at this graph:.
it has the % difference between the peak number of publishers and the average number of publishers for that year.
this number can only be positive.. what the graph tells us is that there is a clear trend towards hunting down inactive and/or irregular publishers.
Remember also that their bar for being counted as a publisher is set pretty low. You can be in a nursing home and count 15 minutes a month or invalid and write a couple of letters an be counted as a publisher.Very true. I believe that is one way in which they have been inflating the numbers. Setting the bar lower and lower to be considered a publisher and not go "irregular".
the numbers don't lie... definitely slowing down!!.
in the 40´s the average growth per year was 20%in the 50´s it was about 10%they had four decades of solid 5% per yearnow the average for the past 16 years has been 2%.
maybe in the future it will be 1% or 0 or even negative????.
Can you imagine any other idea that is 'true' requiring that amount of time to convince just 1 person of its veracity? Or are all those 8 million odd witnesses utterly inept?Both.
i gathered the data for the memorial partakers every year since 1935 (the first year they had data) until now.. the latest figures haven't been that high since 1954!.
this stat looks very bad in watchtower land because the decreasing # of partakers was given, for decades, as proof that the end was near!.
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Also, free wine and crackers!Still needs cheese or something!!
i gathered the data for the memorial partakers every year since 1935 (the first year they had data) until now.. the latest figures haven't been that high since 1954!.
this stat looks very bad in watchtower land because the decreasing # of partakers was given, for decades, as proof that the end was near!.
.
I gathered the data for the memorial partakers every year since 1935 (the first year they had data) until now.
The latest figures haven't been that high since 1954!
This stat looks very bad in Watchtower Land because the decreasing # of partakers was given, for decades, as PROOF that the end was near!
look at this graph:.
it has the % difference between the peak number of publishers and the average number of publishers for that year.
this number can only be positive.. what the graph tells us is that there is a clear trend towards hunting down inactive and/or irregular publishers.
(There was a family of 12 that moved from one city to our congo in a different city. Those 12 publishers would be counted in each city in the Peak publishers for that year.)Really? Wow! I didn't know that they would do things like that! I agree that there must be a fudging of numbers somewhere!
