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Rusty5329 Donating Member (647 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-23-09 11:23 AM
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MSM Grossly Underestimates Number of Protesters at March on Pentagon
Edited on Mon Mar-23-09 12:15 PM by Rusty5329
So, when I put one of my videos of the March on the Pentagon from this last weekend, a comment alerted me that the MSM was underestimating the number. During the march, we came to a bridge, so I ran up to it and caught almost the entire march as it went by underneath. In middle school they taught us how people estimate crowd numbers at an event. It is a very simple method. First, you single out a small section. You want to use as large a section as possible with the constraints of time and ability to count all the people. You count how many people are in that block. You can then count how many times that block is represented by the entire crowd. There is obviously a margin of error, but it is actually quite accurate.

I went through my footage, which is not the entire group of people, but a very large swath of it. I stopped recording briefly to take a few pictures of all the camera people up on the bridge with me. I estimated the number of people in the footage I have, which means the margin of error (for guessing the entire crowd) is larger, but it also means I am more likely underestimating the number.

Based on my footage, I have come to the conclusion that there was at least 3,250 people partaking in the march. This is absurdly larger than some in the MSM are reporting.

For more, go to: http://leftchattering.blogspot.com/2009/03/msm-grossly-underestimates-number-of.html
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