Forthright
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A group of brothers has organized an effort to collect data about Masonry and make it generally available, to help lodges & Grand Lodges better the craft.
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this Data Driven Masonry looks to be just one more group aimed at boosting membership as evidenced by them referencing the decline since the membership spikes of 1914 and the 1950's
The fact that they use the numbers from the post war peaks as their base line instead of going further back shows evidence that their data is already flawed. .
When you show all the data, not some, the peaks are shown as outliers. There are too many unique events that have a large impact on membership numbers to just look at totals to make the claims that they are.
What is the natural membership number for an esoteric organization? Because the fact is, in a given population, the number of men that want to belong to an esoteric order with a religious foundation is just not that big
You are again demonstrating the point by representing opinions as facts. This has not been established, and there is no data for this "fact".
The fact that they use the numbers from the post war peaks as their base line instead of going further back shows evidence that their data is already flawed
Personally I think the real problem is that new members only stay a year or so.