MTAMemberSurvey2012Summary

ThestatisticsinthisdocumentreflectthemembershipoftheMormonTranshumanist Associationattheendof2012.

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MTAMemberSurvey2012Summary Contents Membership Participation Location Religion Politics Feedback Demographics

Membership
BasicMembership:232 VotingMembership:23 =================== TotalMembership:255

AllmembersoftheMormonTranshumanistAssociationsupporttheTranshumanistDeclaration andtheMormonTranshumanistAffirmation,linkedbelow. TranshumanistDeclaration: http://humanityplus.org/philosophy/transhumanistdeclaration/ MormonTranshumanistAffirmation http://transfigurism.org/pages/about/mormontranshumanistaffirmation/

TheabovegraphofthegrowthoftheMTAfromitinceptionin2006showsasignificantly increasedgrowthrateduring2012.Duringthefirst4+yearsthegrowthrateseemedquite stableandlinear.Towardstheendof2011,thegrowthrateseemstohavesuddenly acceleratedandthisfasterratecontinued,quiteconsistently,through2012.Thisnewratestill appearsquitelinear,butthisdatamakesitmucheasierforonetoarguethatthegrowthofthe MTAisactuallyexponential,andjustappearslinearatthestart,asistypicalofexponential growthcurves.Itwillbeexcitingtocontinuetomonitorthisprogressduringthecomingyears.

Participation
NumberofMembersthatParticipated:91(28%growthover2011)

Location

Australia Brasil Canada Congo England Germany Hungary Nigeria Norway Poland Slovakia SouthAfrica USA

1 2 4 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 80

Religion

TheChurchofJesusChristofLatterdaySaints(LDS) NonLDSMormon NonMormonChristian NonChristianAbrahamic Other None Total

Agnostic Atheist 13 2 2 1 1 1 18

1 3 6

Noopinion Theist Total 1 52 68 3 5 3 3 1 4 4 10 4 5 62 91

ThistablecrossesreligiousaffiliationwithperspectiveonGod.Itrevealssomesurprisingmixes, suchasMormonsthatalsoconsiderthemselvesAtheists.

Politics

Economic Conservative CulturalConservative CulturalModerate CulturalProgressive CulturalNoOpinion Total 8 7 15 1 31

Economic Moderate 1 13

Economic Progressive

Economic NoOpinion

Total 9 25

5
23 1 29 3 5 8

9
23

50 7 91

Thistablecrossesculturalpoliticswitheconomicpolitics,showingasignificantportionof memberstobebotheconomicallyconservativeandsociallyprogressive.

Feedback

Unimportant VeryUnsatisfied Unsatisfied Satisfied Verysatisfied Total

Important

Veryimportant 1

Total 1 2 56 32 91

6
6

2 36 17
55

14 15 30

Thistablecrossessatisfactionwithimportance,indicatingmostmembersconsidertheMTAto bebothsatisfyingandimportant.

Demographics