If I have upset you by low balling it, then I apologize.
I'm not "upset" or offended or anything that you made any suggestion about the size of the userbase at all. I'm not sure what you're getting your pants in a bunch for. I merely asked a legitimate question: "Is it really as bad as this guy is saying it is?" Basically, looking for people to corroborate what you're saying. It's not an attack on you, I'm not offended, you've taken my post to mean something other than what it is intended to.

(As an aside: For Recruits, they can be in more than one GC, so the same person could turn up more than once in different searches- Thre's a whole mess of factors that make this difficult to estimate, so as you pointed out, only SE knows for sure.)