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Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:25:06 EDT
Subject: Kennita's math etc.

Kennita Watson wrote in part that, in the West, "an nonbeliever  is 25 times
more likely to sign up than a believer.  That would  mean
that if we want to save lives we are much more likely to
do so by  marketing to nonbelievers than by walking on
eggshells around  believers."

 
Bad arithmetic, lack of verified database, and false  assumptions. For one 
thing, the non religious Communists and Humanists have  not rallied to our 

banner, either in the East or the West. Analyzing the reasons  isn't easy, but 
it 
is interesting that Christians and Muslims want personal  benefit from their 
devotion, while Communists and Humanists are "nobler" because  they seem to be 

more interested in posterity than in themselves. For  another thing, "marketing
to nonbelievers" in Kennita's context would seem to  mean stressing the 
irreligiosity of cryonics, but I know of no  evidence that this would work. 

Kennita also writes that better educated people are more  likely to be 

unbelievers, with unbelief almost universal at the highest  scientific levels. 
So? 

Seems to me this suggests, according to her  reasoning, that we should focus on
these people, and attacking religion  would not help in the least. In fact, 
it would make them uncomfortable, and they  are already uncomfortable with our 
being too avant-garde. 
 
In any event, our actual experience has been that there is no  benefit in 

targeting any niche or group directly. Our success, small but  growing, has been
in offering a reasonable chance, at reasonable cost, to  anyone who wants it.
 
R.E. 









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