August 29, 2004

Two Estimates

By Kevin

The difference is up to an order of magnitude. Which one is more accurate?


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UPDATE: A headline without the possibly misleading statistic:


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UPDATE 2: You have to love unnamed police sources. From the NYT:

The protest organizer, United for Peace and Justice, estimated the crowd at 500,000, rivaling a 1982 antinuclear rally in Central Park, and double the number it had predicted. It was, at best, a rough estimate. The Police Department, as is customary, offered no official estimate, but one officer in touch with the police command center at Madison Square Garden agreed that the crowd appeared to be close to a half-million.

From the AP:

Police gave no official crowd estimate, though one law enforcement official, speaking on condition of anonymity, put the crowd at 120,000; organizers claimed it was roughly 400,000.

Posted at August 29, 2004 06:03 PM

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