wilkox comments on Building rationalist communities: lessons from the Latter-day Saints - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wilkox 10 May 2011 06:41:32AM 6 points [-]

Missionary work, including LDS, has a phenomenally low success rate. I don't recall it, but from memory a missionary might convert 1-2 people per year based on cold calls.

A one year doubling or tripling time doesn't strike me as "phenomenally low".

Comment author: Document 10 May 2011 07:19:18AM 3 points [-]

Conversion means conversion to an official church member, not another missionary, and conversion can be (and depending on who you ask, frequently is) reversed, for missionaries as well as new converts.