Dave does not understand statistics and he doesn't understand deductive reasoning.

The reasoning for why he claims that he believe that 500K number is so fucking retarded.
First off, simple math, 600-700K TV + 500K streaming would put the all in AEW rating at 1.1-1.2M. That would put them above their 2019-2022 average of 900K and their peak of 2022 of 960k.
Second, he claims the poll of the WOR subs claims that 50% of them are watching on Max, which shows Dave doesn't know what a selection bias is. He's polling a handful of extremely hardcore AEW fans and extrapolating that to the population, which is retarded, but if you were following Dave's retarded logical and say that 50% is representative of that purported 500K, one of three things have to be true
>That 50% of people were brand new fans that only started to watch once it went to Max
That's retarded because if that were true, you would see it reflected in other metrics increases, attendance, merch, even the cable rating would see big increases. None of that has happened.
>That 50% were only subscribed to cable for AEW and stopped watching once it went to Max
AEW's ratings have decreased faster than the rate of cable, but it was at about 600K prior to Max and it's still averages 600K after Max. We didn't see a massive drop in AEW TV ratings as fans shifted to Max
>That 50% were the people that used to watch AEW, but stopped watch and they literally only stopped watching because they unsubscribed from Cable and not because of a lack of interest in the product.
That makes no sense because AEW's ratings were decreasing FASTER than the decline in cable subscriptions. The decline in the AEW rating isn't because of cable's decline, it was due to a lack of interest in the product.

Dave is a fucking retard and he should stop citing people like BJ Bethel, who can be quickly seen as unreliable if you look at his twitter.