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Making RSCDS number look better (was Murder in Canada - Off Topic)

Alexandre Rafalovitch

Alexandre Rafalovitch

June 8, 2006, 11:04 p.m. (Message 45474)

> Can we find a way to pphrase the numbers so that people
> think we're counting the dance events, but  we're  actually  counting
> the  individual dances done at each event?  Even better, can we count
> the dancers on the floor for each individual dance,  and  report  the
> total  such  a  way that readers think we're counting the SCD events?
> I'd bet that a good PR person could manage this ...

Well, this is sort of on topic.

We could report number of times a dance was danced. That would of
course be a separate count for each set. So, say 9 sets per event, 20
events per year including (say) The Robertson Rant and we have:
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The Robertson Rant was danced 180 times last year. That's nearly every
second day, even if you go easy on Xmas/New Year. And that's just one
dance. And just in USA/Germany/CountryX. When you consider more than
10 thousand dances in the current RSCDS collection and worldwide
membership, this makes for a lot of demand on slipstop.
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This extract can be used (without attribution) for any RSCDS promoting
purpose. :-)

Regards,
   Alex.
Pia Walker

Pia Walker

June 9, 2006, 10:25 a.m. (Message 45475, in reply to message 45474)

And if you put 'at least 180 times' (to account for walk throughs :>)) it
sounds even better

or you could

 Calculate the number of Branches and groups, multiply with 52 (weekly
classes - 52 makes up for some branches having more than 1 class, but not
for a full year and the groups we don't know about) - add 1 function per
number of branch/group pr year and you should have an impressive number of
gatherings world-wide - if you then want to take an approximate number of
dances done in an evening and multiply that with your previous total, you
have an even better figure to talk about.

Or you could shorten that to:   You can dance every day of the week all year
round throughout the world.

Pia

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