Cognition Magazine Statistics, Chicago Org
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As part of my ongoing project of compiling and analyzing Scientology's statistics, I am collecting statistics from Cognition, the magazine of the Church of Scientology of Chicago.
As I get more data, I plan to analyze the statistics for each org. In addition, I plan to compile data from old issues of Auditor magazine, which used to list completions for each local org, and compare that to more recent data. (In the meantime, you may be interested in analysis I have done on data from Advance, Celebrity, and Freewinds.)
Issues
1993
Issue | Approximate Date | Includes completions? | |
Cognition (no number) | November 1993 | yes |
1998
Issue | Approximate Date | Includes completions? | |
Cognition 315 | yes | ||
Cognition 316 | yes | ||
Cognition 319 | yes |
1999
Issue | Approximate Date | Includes completions? | |
Cognition 327 | yes | ||
Cognition 329 | yes | ||
Cognition 330 | yes | ||
Cognition 331 | yes | ||
Cognition 332 | |||
Cognition 333 | yes | ||
Cognition 334 |
2000
Issue | Approximate Date | Includes completions? | |
Cognition 335 | yes | ||
Cognition 336 | |||
Cognition 337 | |||
Cognition 338 | |||
Cognition 339 | |||
Cognition 340 | |||
Cognition 341 | yes | ||
Cognition 342 | |||
Cognition 343 | yes |
2001
Issue | Approximate Date | Includes completions? | |
Cognition 352 | yes |
2002
Issue | Approximate Date | Includes completions? | |
Cognition 355 | yes | ||
Cognition 356 | Minor | ||
Cognition 356 | yes | ||
Cognition 357 | yes | ||
Cognition 358 | |||
Cognition 359 | |||
Cognition 360 | yes |
2003
Issue | Approximate Date | Includes completions? | |
Cognition 364 | yes | ||
Cognition 365 | |||
Cognition 366 | yes | ||
Cognition 367 | |||
Cognition 368 | yes | ||
Cognition 369 | |||
Cognition 370 | yes | ||
Cognition 371 | |||
Cognition 372 | yes |
2004
Issue | Approximate Date | Includes completions? | |
Cognition 374 | yes |
About the Magazine
Per policy, org magazines are supposed to come out every month in alternating Major and Minor issues. Major issues are supposed to include completions lists, and are supposed to be mailed to people who have done a service or at least bought a book; Minors are not supposed to include completions lists, and are to go to everyone on the mailing list, even people who haven't spent any money on Scn.
However, not all orgs have adhered closely to this policy. It's not uncommon to find Minor issues with completions listed and Major issues with no completions listed.
In recent years, org mags have been produced centrally. Issues from different orgs look nearly identical and contain nearly identical content. Only a few pages - indeed, usually only parts of those pages - contain information related to the local org. Often there will be a message from the local executive director; sometimes there will be a half page or a page of local org news; and, if there are completions listed, those reflect completions from the local org only. However, even many success stories are duplicated across the country, rather than originating from the local org.
Older org mags (from the 1970s) contain a great deal of local information, including interviews with local Scientologists, articles written by local staff members, and sometimes poetry or artwork contributed by local members.
I am very interested in receiving copies of, or information from, all issues of all org magazines, even the ones I already have.
Many, many people have contributed to the statistics project by sending in tallies, completions lists, or old magazines. The contribution page tells more about how you can help. I thank all those who have contributed so far!