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Table 4. Beneficial and Harmful Practices Involving a Child, Teenager, or Youth
Rated by Critics Versus Experts: Means, Standard Deviations, and Percentages
Critics (n=58) Experts (n=85)
X SD %X SD %
Practice Rated Beneficial by Critics
High school group stages a peace
rally on athletic field.
4.00 0.9 07 3.98 1.05 09
Practice Rated Beneficial by Experts
A coed with PMS and frequent
digestive upsets has bought a book
and is following its program which
claims that AMany of the common
ailments of modern life ...can
often be dramatically improved or
completely corrected without drugs
or invasive medical procedures.”
2.56 0.96 51** 4.00 0.96 08
Practices Rated Very Harmful by Critics
Woman operated daycare center
that participates in ritual sexual
abuse.
1.02 0.13 100 1.07 0.34 98
Teenagers join Satanic group and
make a
murder-suicide pact.
1.09 0.34 98 1.08 0.3 99
Army draftee is ordered to take a
personal improvement course of-
fered by the Church of Scientology.
1.09 0.29 100** 2.07 1.02 67
Minister persuades children to have
sex Ato remain in God‟s grace and
build your demon fighting powers.”
1.12 0.47 98 1.26 0.66 94
After a period of prayer,
meditation, and fasting, a high
school freshman sacrifices a goat
at the command of his Satanic
group.
1.12 0.38 98 1.26 0.62 97
Satanists stage an aggressive
recruitment drive in area schools.
1.16 0.41 98 1.29 0.61 94
Woman claims her son joined
Temple of Brotherhood of the Ram
and threatened to kill her.
1.16 0.50 95 1.27 0.67 88
Teenager sacrifices rats during a
mystic ceremony led by a witch.
1.16 0.37 100 1.31 0.56 95
Sally, age 6, is denied medical
treatment by her parents because
Aher spirit ancestor advised us not
to go to the hospital.”
1.19 0.50 98** 1.73 0.84 80
A teenager is brainwashed by the
Creative Community Project.
1.20 0.65 90** 1.98 0.91 24
A college sophomore drops out to
live near a 40-year-old woman who
1.28 0.45 100** 2.31 0.82 55
Table 4. Beneficial and Harmful Practices Involving a Child, Teenager, or Youth
Rated by Critics Versus Experts: Means, Standard Deviations, and Percentages
Critics (n=58) Experts (n=85)
X SD %X SD %
Practice Rated Beneficial by Critics
High school group stages a peace
rally on athletic field.
4.00 0.9 07 3.98 1.05 09
Practice Rated Beneficial by Experts
A coed with PMS and frequent
digestive upsets has bought a book
and is following its program which
claims that AMany of the common
ailments of modern life ...can
often be dramatically improved or
completely corrected without drugs
or invasive medical procedures.”
2.56 0.96 51** 4.00 0.96 08
Practices Rated Very Harmful by Critics
Woman operated daycare center
that participates in ritual sexual
abuse.
1.02 0.13 100 1.07 0.34 98
Teenagers join Satanic group and
make a
murder-suicide pact.
1.09 0.34 98 1.08 0.3 99
Army draftee is ordered to take a
personal improvement course of-
fered by the Church of Scientology.
1.09 0.29 100** 2.07 1.02 67
Minister persuades children to have
sex Ato remain in God‟s grace and
build your demon fighting powers.”
1.12 0.47 98 1.26 0.66 94
After a period of prayer,
meditation, and fasting, a high
school freshman sacrifices a goat
at the command of his Satanic
group.
1.12 0.38 98 1.26 0.62 97
Satanists stage an aggressive
recruitment drive in area schools.
1.16 0.41 98 1.29 0.61 94
Woman claims her son joined
Temple of Brotherhood of the Ram
and threatened to kill her.
1.16 0.50 95 1.27 0.67 88
Teenager sacrifices rats during a
mystic ceremony led by a witch.
1.16 0.37 100 1.31 0.56 95
Sally, age 6, is denied medical
treatment by her parents because
Aher spirit ancestor advised us not
to go to the hospital.”
1.19 0.50 98** 1.73 0.84 80
A teenager is brainwashed by the
Creative Community Project.
1.20 0.65 90** 1.98 0.91 24
A college sophomore drops out to
live near a 40-year-old woman who
1.28 0.45 100** 2.31 0.82 55
