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Subject: [OM] Zuikoholics Anonymous - Membership Study
From: "Chris O'Neill" <chris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 21:27:13 -0700
I recently did a bit of an analysis of the membership of Zuikoholics 
Anonymous, based on each person's responses to the sign-up form.  
Although not a scientific study, I think the results are quite telling.  Here 
is the URL to the numbers:

http://www.joinco.ca/zuikoholism/memberstudy.html

And, here are some of my conclusions based on those numbers:

1.  More than two-thirds of the members (66 out of 91) report being 
addicted.  Sadly, only twenty-five members report being hobbiests.

2.  Nearly half of the members (40 out of 91) have a hopeless prognosis 
in that they report having no desire whatsoever to work on overcoming 
their addiction.  Another one-fourth of the members (23 out of 91) are 
trying to overcome their addiction but have doubts they'll succeed.  
Sadly, 19 of the members are in denial that they need any help.  But 
the saddest statistic of all is that only 10 percent of the members (9 out 
of 91) are truly doing their best to overcome this terrible disease.

3.  Of the 91 members, more than a third (35) favor the OM-4 models.  
Another one-fourth (21 members) favored the OM-2 models, and fifteen 
percent (14 members) favored the OM-1 models.  In other words, 77 
percent of the members favored these three models.

4.  It would appear that the OM-2SP is the most addictive of the 
Olympus cameras.  All 5 members who favored the OM-2SP reported 
that they are Zuikoholics.

5.  On the other hand, the OM-40 (OM-PC) appears to be the least 
addictive camera, as only 1/3rd (1 out of 3) of those favoring it reported 
they are addicts.

It is sad to note that the vast majority of members who admitted to 
being addicted also expressed no desire to overcome the disease.  This 
just shows how much work there is to be done.  Do not fear, though, for 
the work of Zuikoholics Anonymous WILL go on!  Of course, your 
donations of OM gear will be most appreciated and will help us to fight 
the good fight!

Regards,

Chris

P.S.  Comments are appreciated, too!

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Zuikoholics Anonymous - Helping Olympus/Zuiko addicts recover
Chris O'Neill, President (chris@xxxxxxxxx)
http://www.joinco.ca/zuikoholism/index.html

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