Re: Crowd count, Washington rally

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From: Charles Packer
Date: Tue, 19 May 1992 12:10

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In article <1992May18.152906.3277@seas.gwu.edu>, declan@seas.gwu.edu (Declan McCullagh) writes...
>with the DC police guessing over 100,000 people participated.  I was

The Post indeed quoted a figure of 150,000 as the D.C. Police's
estimate. Since the Park Police said 35,000, something's obviously
out of whack. However, if the Post made a typo and added an extra
zero, then the D.C. Police estimate would be 15,000, closer to 
my estimate.

I would be highly skeptical of anecdotal evidence from a "few bus
drivers" as to the number of passengers on each bus, but at least
your attempt at an estimate represeneted the 95 percentile of
effort as these things go...

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