Last year a run of articles reported that Walt Disney World had gotten noticeably emptier. Most of them leaned on the same kind of evidence: third-party wait time trackers showing crowd levels at multi-year lows. Disney, meanwhile, was describing attendance as broadly stable. Both things looked true at once, which is what made it interesting. A posted wait time measures how long a queue is, not how many people walked through the gate. There are several reasons those two numb