Thanks for the link, neuromusic. The std. dev. for the past 10 years is 2522. The mean is 30812. That’s a CV of 0.08– attendance has been basically flat for that 10 year period. Last year’s attendance in New Orleans was less than 1 std. dev. below the mean. I don’t see that as a large decrease.
I vote for New Orleans
Well, about 4000 people voted AGAINST New Orleans in 2012:
http://www.sfn.org/sfn/amstats/amstatsgraph.html
If SfN can’t get attendees, they can’t get exhibitors and they can’t make money.
Thanks for the link, neuromusic. The std. dev. for the past 10 years is 2522. The mean is 30812. That’s a CV of 0.08– attendance has been basically flat for that 10 year period. Last year’s attendance in New Orleans was less than 1 std. dev. below the mean. I don’t see that as a large decrease.