The company generated its own estimate and asked Doig to separately one on his own. Though Doig and AirPhotosLive. Westergard provided the image below to help show how the estimates are made. It's of a Tea Party Express event on April 15th that the company calculated attracted 4, people. CBS News elected to use the higher estimate.
In a blog post , Doig, writing from Portugal, noted that he estimated the crowd at Mr. Obama's inauguration at roughly , - a number critics assailed as too low. Because of the wild pre-inauguration predictions of how many would attend in person -- up to 5 million! Alveda King: Beck Isn't a "Racist". He added: "The frothing underscores the problem with hyped predictions of crowd size. Organizers and supporters are forced to insist loudly that the actual crowd met or exceeded their expectations, for fear that the realistic estimate will be painted as a disappointment.
The time-honored way to dismiss scientific estimates that don't reflect the pre-event hype is to claim political bias on the part of those doing the estimate. Soon after he took the stage, Beck looked out over the massive crowd assembled on the Mall and proclaimed that, if you listen to the media, "there are over a thousand people here!
Several people I talked to were certain the rally had drawn over a million. The crowd, in truth, was huge. In front of the Lincoln Memorial, people packed in along the Reflecting pool and filled up an adjacent field, where an extra jumbotron was set up. Shaded by trees, the crowd filled up surrounding park areas.
It stretched, in respectable density, past the World War II memorial, and what looked to be a several thousand occupied the hill in front of the Washington Memorial, roughly three quarters of a mile away.
Michael Calderone notes at Yahoo! News blog The Upshot that CBS actually commissioned its estimate of 87, from a company that specializes in crowd estimates, while observing that the total was probably greater:. Even though Beck is still tabulating a crowd estimate, it can be expected to be significantly higher than the number CBS News reported over the weekend: 87, CBS commissioned an estimate from AirPhotosLive , a company that provides crowd sizes based on aerial photos. CBS noted that there's a margin of error of plus or minus 9, Monitor journalism changes lives because we open that too-small box that most people think they live in.
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