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Article #383Re: Crowd size at abortion rights march
From: Grey Rider
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 21:56
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 21:56
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In article <17975@oasys.dt.navy.mil>, jbrown@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Jennifer Brown) writes... > >Last evening on Television I watched a news program that was investigating >how crowd size was determined for events such as these. The old method >that was used was refered to as "WAG" (Wild Ass Guess) I'm not kidding >that is what the reported said. And I belive he has talking to the >DC police or Park Police. However, now they have a grid of the DC area. >They take areial photos of marches and then place the grid overtop of >the photos and estimate that way. I can't which station it was. Did >anyone else see this? It was the ABC Evening news. The National Park Service uses this grid method, and they provide the "official" crowd estimates for DC marches. Their official estimate was 250,000. Take it or leave it. >Jennifer Brown
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Newsgroups: misc.headlines Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!news.UU.NET!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!eagle!lims02.lerc.nasa.gov!bdsuba From: bdsuba@lims02.lerc.nasa.gov (Grey Rider) Subject: Re: Crowd size at abortion rights march Message-ID: <10APR199216565462@lims02.lerc.nasa.gov> Followup-To: misc.headlines News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41 Sender: news@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov Organization: Turner Ranch. Blood Butte, Texas References: <7APR199208114521@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov> <_v5td1b@rpi.edu> <17975@oasys.dt.navy.mil> Date: 10 Apr 1992 16:56 EST Lines: 18