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Interesting Survey of Ex-Scientologists
Mar. 31st, 2011 03:28 amI made the summary charts, here's the first:
Wait, you might say, that seems high.
Well, the lowest service surveyed was the "grades" -- and in order to complete those, it's generally a $10k-20k proposition, so people have had to buy in for an extended period to answer anything on this at all. Further, it doesn't exclude actual current CofS members from answering. Also, it doesn't say whether the person got the levels inside or outside the CofS. (In general, satisfaction rates tend to be higher outside because of the lack of attempt to control the person.) This is the first survey I've heard of, even self-selected, that specifically targets satisfaction with the upper levels.
At each point going up, the result is considered less valuable until finally it's at 9% satisfied with OT VIII (the highest level of Scientology currently).
The rest of my summary charts are here.
Wait, you might say, that seems high.
Well, the lowest service surveyed was the "grades" -- and in order to complete those, it's generally a $10k-20k proposition, so people have had to buy in for an extended period to answer anything on this at all. Further, it doesn't exclude actual current CofS members from answering. Also, it doesn't say whether the person got the levels inside or outside the CofS. (In general, satisfaction rates tend to be higher outside because of the lack of attempt to control the person.) This is the first survey I've heard of, even self-selected, that specifically targets satisfaction with the upper levels.
At each point going up, the result is considered less valuable until finally it's at 9% satisfied with OT VIII (the highest level of Scientology currently).
The rest of my summary charts are here.