A lot of people still do, though. Last time I looked into this, the retention rate (reckoned between the first serious [i.e. paid] Scientology courses and active participation a couple years later) was about 10%.
It’s not a question of whether they do leave, but whether they do come out ahead.
Scientology courses aren’t cheap. If you are going to invest money into training, I would prefer to buy training from an organisation that makes leaving easy instead of making it painful.
Oh, I’m pretty confident they don’t. But if you had strong reasons for joining and leaving Scientology other than what Scientologists euphemistically call “tech”, then in the face of those base rates it seems unlikely to me that they’d manage to suck you in for real.
There are probably safer places to see groupthink in action, though.
A lot of people still do, though. Last time I looked into this, the retention rate (reckoned between the first serious [i.e. paid] Scientology courses and active participation a couple years later) was about 10%.
It’s not a question of whether they do leave, but whether they do come out ahead.
Scientology courses aren’t cheap. If you are going to invest money into training, I would prefer to buy training from an organisation that makes leaving easy instead of making it painful.
Oh, I’m pretty confident they don’t. But if you had strong reasons for joining and leaving Scientology other than what Scientologists euphemistically call “tech”, then in the face of those base rates it seems unlikely to me that they’d manage to suck you in for real.
There are probably safer places to see groupthink in action, though.