Here is how I read it:
Lets make this forum sound as unrepresentative as possible - so quote some statistics that show how few beginners stay with MJ, and how few of those subsequently join this forum. (I read things that emphasise how many people 'leave' as being negative not positive)
Then lets make everything in the current class structure sound as wonderful as possible, so give a statement that states just how well it works.
My opinion is that your first statement - just how few beginners keep with MJ - doesn't correlate with your second statement. I don't care if you quoted the statistics for a different reason. If you quote statistics, don't be surprised when people quote them back to serve their own opinions.
Personally I think that this forum is a representative cross-section of people who do MJ. 100% of people who do MJ were once beginners. And 100% of people on this forum were once beginners.
And personally I think the current class structure works pretty well. It is just I would rather be treated as being British and not American.
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Originally Posted by bigdjiver We only need the returners rate and "recruiters" rate to rise by a couple of percent and we will be in runaway mode. |
So perhaps if you listened to people who say that they find some parts of the class embarrassing, you might get your 2%?
Interestingly I can remember when Ceroc was a craze. In the mid 80's it was very popular in London. 2 years later Ceroc almost folded, because the craze had moved onto something else.
Lindy in the '90s was very popular with teenagers and 20-somethings in the US. It was a craze that started with the Gap ad, and lasted for about 2 years. But now it is nowhere near as popular - because the craze moved onto something else.