X-Message-Number: 18297
Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2002 10:38:48 -0500
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Subject: Alcor Membership Statistics (again)

Jennifer Chapman, Alcor Membership Administrator, recently wrote on Cryonet:

>The number of membership finalizations per month has increased
>approximately 22 % this year as compared to last year.  With a total of 82
>memberships activated (74 memberships finalized, 8 memberships reinstated)
>and 43 memberships inactivated, Alcor gained a net total of 39 memberships,
>which establishes an overall net gain of 7.5 % for 2001.  This is an 11.3%
>increase over last year.

Again, I have to ask how many of these 74 "new" memberships were actually 
former Alcor members returning to the fold, after some years ago having 
left to join CryoCare or for other reasons?  When I asked this type of 
question before, Ms. Chapman said she did not have the time to get me 
specific numbers and that she did not think the issue was important.

I think that if there are such returning members included in the 74 number, 
it distorts the number of real NEW members.  Those returning members were 
once long ago counted as NEW Alcor members, and some Membership 
Administrator at the time no doubt took credit for them as part of the "% 
increase" of the time.

I'd like to see the real figures, what the real net gain (or loss) for 2001 
was, not including people who used to be members.

I'd also like an explanation of the 8 "reinstated" members.  Presumably 
these are people whose memberships lapsed for only a month or two, 
according to Alcor's reinstatement policy?  If so, they were probably 
already members at the beginning of 2001, so what is the point of including 
them in the figure of 82 memberships "activated"?  Were these 8 also 
included in the "43 memberships inactivated"?  If not, obtaining an 
"overall net gain" of 39 by subtracting 43 from 82 is an outright fiction.

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