Otherwise, I miss the JWs the same way fish miss bicycles.
Exactly. There's not a damned thing I miss about being a Witness.
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Former JW Survey -- This time with results!
by Opus92 inout of the many responses i received, i was only able to use 177.
) responses were tossed if:.
any of the questions were skippedanswers were vague (e.g., "i quit attending at age ###, but i stopped believing at ###.
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I was floored by how evenly the sexes were represented. I originally thought there'd be more women since it seems there's so many more JW women than men. Now I think you're right about more even amounts of men and women leaving.
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Former JW Survey -- This time with results!
by Opus92 inout of the many responses i received, i was only able to use 177.
) responses were tossed if:.
any of the questions were skippedanswers were vague (e.g., "i quit attending at age ###, but i stopped believing at ###.
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Out of the many responses I received, I was only able to use 177. (This is still more than enough!) Responses were tossed if:
- any of the questions were skipped
- answers were vague (e.g., "I quit attending at age ###, but I stopped believing at ###.")
- more than one answer per question (e.g., answering the "How old were you when you quit?" question with an age range instead of a one- or two-digit age.)
- I just couldn't decipher the response.
I still appreciate that so many people took the time to take the survey. I'm sorry that I couldn't use all the responses.
Demographics
Out of the 177, 88 were males and 89 were females. The average age for all respondents was 42 years. The average age at which someone quit the JW's was 32 years.
The majority of the sample resided in the United States (68%), while the rest were disperesed between Canada (11%), the United Kingdom (10%), Australia (5%), South Africa (2%), Austria (1%), the Czech Republic (1%), Finland (1%), Hong Kong (1%), New Zealand (1%), Puerto Rico (1%), and Sweden (1%).
Education
More than half of the sample (63%) had not earned a degree, but more than half (66%) also had some education beyond high school. (It's not supposed to add up to 100% -- those who had "some college" but never got the degree fit into both groups.)
6% didn't finish high school. 28% did. The largest category was those who had attended some college, but didn't earn a degree (29%). 11% had 2-year degrees; 19% had 4-year degrees; 7% had postgraduate degrees.
Doin' Time
More than half of the sample (55%) came into this world as JW's. 48% entered as children, while 18% converted as teens or adults.
Implications
For ex-JW's? There are none. This is about as unscientific as it gets.
For my class? I've got enough to earn a grade for the project, but I have more processing to do. Thanks again!
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Former JW Survey
by Opus92 ini'm trying to gather data on ex-jws to analyze for a statistics class.
i'd appreciate it if you'd click the link and take my short survey.
it's only 7 questions and is anonymous.. .
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Survey is closed! Thank you to everyone who participated!
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Former JW Survey
by Opus92 ini'm trying to gather data on ex-jws to analyze for a statistics class.
i'd appreciate it if you'd click the link and take my short survey.
it's only 7 questions and is anonymous.. .
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But one last question might have been good to include. If more than high school education, when did you get your college or university education while a witness or after.
I thought about that, but I figured there would be enough of a correlation between education and years as a JW without it.
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Former JW Survey
by Opus92 ini'm trying to gather data on ex-jws to analyze for a statistics class.
i'd appreciate it if you'd click the link and take my short survey.
it's only 7 questions and is anonymous.. .
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You guys are so awesome. I'm thisclose to getting the minumum number of responses I need. I can't thank you enough!
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Former JW Survey
by Opus92 ini'm trying to gather data on ex-jws to analyze for a statistics class.
i'd appreciate it if you'd click the link and take my short survey.
it's only 7 questions and is anonymous.. .
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Thank you! I'm really looking forward to seeing how this turns out.
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This is a perfect religion!
by life is to short inthis is perfect religion with imperfect people.
the elders are imperfect that is why there are problems.
we just need to endure because jehovah is allowing this as a test to see if we will still love him.
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I always wondered why an omnipotent god would allow his organization to be full of people who were always screwing up. Wouldn't he want to fix the problems?
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Former JW Survey
by Opus92 ini'm trying to gather data on ex-jws to analyze for a statistics class.
i'd appreciate it if you'd click the link and take my short survey.
it's only 7 questions and is anonymous.. .
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Thank you to those of you who have taken the survey! I really appreciate it.
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Former JW Survey
by Opus92 ini'm trying to gather data on ex-jws to analyze for a statistics class.
i'd appreciate it if you'd click the link and take my short survey.
it's only 7 questions and is anonymous.. .
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I'm trying to gather data on ex-JWs to analyze for a statistics class. I'd appreciate it if you'd click the link and take my short survey. It's only 7 questions and is anonymous.
Just in case I screwed up the HTML in the post: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=pAZCEcF9csvQCqEuYSPY5g_3d_3d