X-Message-Number: 9714
Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 12:37:31 +0100
From:  (John de Rivaz)
Subject: Re: the survey

In article: <>  
writes:
> From: Charles Platt <>
> Subject: Surveys
(del)
> First, a survey of signed-up cryonicists may be more useful than a survey
> of people who have chosen not to sign up, because it teaches us who to
> look for, rather than who to avoid. 
(del)

Surely the point of a survey of people who do *not* sign up is to find out 
whether they have failed to sign up because of some misconception. They may 
well beleive many of the countless innaccurate arguments against cryonics. 
If they beleive these innaccurate arguments, then it is necessary to find a 
way of educating them. The very fact that members of the public beleive 
innaccurate arguments is the main "failure of the cryonics movement."

I do not have the answer, but it is clear that information has to be 
presented *in the right sequence* in order to get someone to accept many 
propositions.


> Also, if people are dubious about cryonics to begin with, they're
> going to be a lot more dubious after they read the warnings in cryonics
> signup documents.

Surely it could be explained properly that these warning are there to 
protect all the patients against a lawsuit against the organisation causing 
them to be annihilated by thawing without reanimation. Very few people 
actually like lawyers and lawsuits.

-- 
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