X-Message-Number: 31662
From: "Kennita (Go Cryo!)" <>
Subject: Re: Membership Growth: Alcor and the Cryonics Institute
Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 15:30:03 -0700
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> David Stodolsky <> wrote:
>
>> I'm guessing that
>> the first step would be to get the board of directors
>> of each organization to agree in principle that such
>> information should be collected and shared.
>
> I was not suggesting this.

When I said "shared", I wasn't talking about posting it on the net  
(though they might decide they want to do that).

> It would be up to the organization whether
> the information was shared. Anything sent to me would be protected by
> professional confidentiality, which is pretty strong, since I am a
> psychologist in Denmark. Inappropriate disclosure gets people a couple
> of years in jail here.

Confidentiality is actually a detail. What is at issue IMHO is  
authorizing someone to spend the time and money it would take to  
gather the information and put it in a presentable form. You would be  
the best person to explain to them how it would be done and what value  
it would be to them.
>
>
> The data would be subject to routine analysis, and then results would
> be returned. They would also be posted to www.cryonics.info, if that
> organization found it acceptable. The advantage of compiling the data
> from all organizations would be that factors effecting growth would
> then be more easily identifiable.

  Which means that you would need to explain to each organization in  
turn, because there is no international cryonics summit where all the  
decision-makers get together in one room and agree en masse.
>
>
> dss


Live long and prosper,
Kennita

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