Here is why the patient is dying:
1. Fund raising.
On 12/13/2011, carlitos first notice a campaign on the top left of AE911T's home page with the goal to raise 13,500 dollars by dec 18th (5 days later). If that campaign had started 5 days earlier, then they had expected to raise 1,350 dollars per day.
They had to extend the deadline to jan 12th, then jan 19th, then jan 29th, then feb 14th.
On february 14th (yesterday), the campaign ended, 26% short of theor target. They had daily raised only 10% of what they expected.
Conclusion: AE911T has lost its ability to raise funds for their cause.
2. "Membership" developlment
If the A&E who signed the "petition" were serious and spread the word among their peers, then there should be exponential growth - that means, every day, months, year the number of new signatures per day should increase.
For example: On 01/17/2010, the "petition" reached 1000 signatures. If every other signer managed to talk one peer into signing up (groth rate: 50%), then at that time, there should have been 1.11 new signatures per day; a year later, with 1500 spreading the news, there would have been 1.66 new/day, and today there would be 2.5 new sig/day.
What really happened is this:
Time interval|sig/day|growth rate
01/17/10-10/09/10|1,26|48,61%
10/09/10-05/17/11|0,76|21,65%
05/17/11-10/25/11|0,79|20,25%
10/25/11-02/15/12|0,33|7,54%
Exponential growth rate has been declining steadily - i.e. there really is no exponential growth. The A&E are not convincing any peers at all with the nonsense they fell for.
Even linear growth rate has been declining. The third line includes the time around the 10th anniversary of 9/11, that gave them added interested and a surge of signatures for a few weeks; take that away, and Gage is recruiting less and less new A&E every months.
Need a graph?
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One year ago, they had twice as many signatures per day as today.
Two years ago, even four times as many new signatures as today.
Conclusion: AE911T is steadily losing its ability to convince professionals
Diagnosis: The patient AE911T is slowly dying