"TRUE" population of a card

[ullmandds]

Good luck guys...you can figure all of the equations/integrals/theories you want but we will never know exact figures for known examples of any given card...all we have are estimates.

[Matt]

I would ask - why? What's the point of knowing if there are exactly 37 or 46 of a particular card in existence?

What is of interest to me is relative rarity e.g. that Tris Speaker's V100 is tougher then his M116 and I think pop reports, as they are, are instructive in that conversation because, as a general principal, all the noise mentioned above (resubmissions, mistakes, raw cards, etc.) should apply uniformly across all issues. I acknowledge there are cases where that logic doesn't work (e.g. comparing the pop of Andy Pafko's 1952 Topps to his 1954 Topps would be meaningless).

[Seiklis]

The one "True" pop report I'd love to see is the 1924 Diaz Cigarettes...I know of one full set out there, and the rest of the cards are just pure blind luck on who exists more than others

[zljones]

The point is to not get an exact number just an estimated number, right now there is not even a rough estimate out there for anything. I just think a lot of collecters like me would like to know about how many of their card is out there.