Re: IRAQ/POL: Empirical crowd estimates?

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Greg Burch wrote:
> sfgate.com article re empirical methods used to estimate the numbers at
> San Francisco's peace rally:
>
> http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/02/21/COUNT.TMP
>
> The methodology employed -- using aerial photos and a consistent grid
> system -- puts the number at 65K, instead of the 200k widely reported.
> FWIW.
>
> Greg Burch
> Vice-President, Extropy Institute
> http://www.gregburch.net

By extrapolation, I suppose we should multiply by
about 0.3 all the numbers reported for the crowd
size at the peace rallies. spike

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