Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/02/14
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At 5:59 PM -0500 2/14/03, Austin Franklin wrote:
> > Well, the last one was estimated by SF Police (not organisers) at
>> 100,000 to 150,000 and with the growing shift in public feeling about
>> potential war, I would guess rather more than that this.
>>
>> How big does it have to be before it's classed as "massive"...?
>
>I don't know, but when they count the number, are they going to use
>"statistical" (snicker, cough, choke...) methods, and "really" count only a
>very dense area, and then apply this density for some overall (inflated)
>area...and play with the numbers so that 10,000, including normal traffic
>and tourists etc. somehow turns into "100,000 ANGRY protestors"?
No, of course not. They're going to look at a large field, in which
there are only 10 or 20 protesters and apply _that_ density for the
overall area and arrive at a conclusion that 100,000 angry protesters
are really only 1000 weirdo people who don't matter anyway.
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