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Very true. About Meetup.com specifically (a couple of years ago at least), attending rate was something like 15-20% of the people who RSVP'd.

I get about ~40-50% attendance rate from meetup, but we've been going for years so the regulars are pretty consistent.

Higher indeed. 40% no shows for a meetup I run (60-100 slots, meeting monthly)