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Topic: What do you do about an erroneous checker report?
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Randy Stankey
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From: Erie, Pennsylvania
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 06-26-2012 08:58 AM
In a full auditorium, with customers moving around, it's hard to count heads. When it gets that full, I often count the EMPTY seats instead of the full ones then do the math.
With a claimed attendance of 184 in a 197 seat auditorium, there would have been only 13 empty seats. As you say, that would have been a pretty darned full auditorium. Almost a "hard" sell-out.
However, with an actual attendance of 122 in a 197 seat auditorium, there would have been 75 empty seats. Even in a "pretty full" house, a difference of nearly six times the number of empty seats would have been apparent.
I think it is this information that you can use to challenge the checker's report.
As others would say, it is the checker who should be under scrutiny. Not you. Not the film company. The checker. Since both of you have a vested interest in making sure the checker's reports are accurate, I don't think it would be hard to bring the film company to your side so that both of you are scrutinizing the data.
When you talk to the company, hold back on the math at the beginning. Just ask them to have the checker report on "how full" the house was. Ask them HOW they counted and whether they noted how many empty seats they saw.
The checker naturally "won't remember" but you could get them to "characterize" the "fullness" of the house.
This is where you can nail the guy. If he says that he saw more than a handful of empty seats, it will be clear that his report was wrong. Combine that with a background check on the guy. See if you can get the company to scrutinize any of his other reports too. If this guy has a history of sketchy reporting, that's damning.
Then, at the end, drop the math in their lap. If the guy says something like, "There were 50 or 60 empty seats," it is clear that his numbers CAN'T add up. If he says there were that many empty seats in the house, there COULDN'T have been the number of people in the house as he said. They wouldn't fit. The house only holds 197.
If there were 50 empty seats in a house with 184 customers, that would have brought the seat count up to 234 which is way more than are actually in the house.
In any case, just say that it would be impossible for the house to have held the number of people that the checker claims.
If the company has (inadvertently ) hired checkers who are not truthful or who can't count, they ought be "very concerned." Wouldn't you think?
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