OTWO said: They know that their 3% increase is highly inflated with "15-minute-per month" elderly and sickly publishers,
and fakers who don't get out there.
and fakers who don't get out there.
Oh geeze, I completely forgot about that.......So let's see: If you took away the '15 minutes per month' allowed to retain your status as a publisher, take away the 'bible studies' that people have with their children and only allow bible studies with potential converts, I'm guessing we'd be seeing about a 5% - 10% decrease. One of these days you'll be allowed to be counted as a publisher for maybe just thinking about the bible. 
OK, and in case it hasn't been mentioned before, this Service Report was not in the Watchtower this year----it was in the Kingdumb Ministry. I guess they figure the fewer people who see these embarassing numbers the better.