Helios and Matheson Analytics Inc (HMNY)

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Not so much a misunderstanding as I was disclosing my own usage variances rather than responding to the ones you were calculating. Thank you for the public observation of my supposed predisposition to and of previous misunderstandings. Again I wasn't necessarily directly responding to your calculation as much as I was voicing my own overall observed overview of usage fundimentals. I continue to use the national average because it's accuracy would be more precise to cost of ticket expense rather than a median calculation. Everywhere even small towns have a movie theater and attendance is more or less averaged equally. No reason to believe that people in the city are more prone to movie attendance than in smaller towns. Perhaps the volume is higher but the attendance is equal ratio wise. I believe that it is that volume difference that MP is using to offset expense across the board by charging metropolitan areas more than rural. Also I don't have expectations that you disclose a personal guess to overall MP usage rate. I support the thought you have stated that it is difficult to calculate and I would not pressure you to give one just to receive credibility on this board. Like you have stated with the darts comment. I myself can not begin to determine a usage ratio, nor do I find it necessary. Anything over 1.0 is a fail, I don't care what Mitch says. And I wasn't correlating usage rate to your continued subscription. I was referencing your expectation of your service attendance in relation to your continued subscription probability. My thoughts are that anyone bothering to sign up wouldn't do so unless their personal minimum expectation was to use at least 2 times per month. Anyone using less is not going to find the added inconvenience worth the money. Any subscriber plan to use two of the three opportunities as minimum. If I had to put out a "guess" at what the ratio of usage would be I would use something in the range of 2.3-2.5 The lions share of subscribers are going to strive to utilize their full usage opportunities.