>>The march and rally today in Washington DC - estimated by march
>>organizers to number 100,000 - will be rebroadcast this evening at
>>8:00 p.m. on C-Span 1.
>
>That's funny. The cops estimated the event at between 10 and 20,000.
>Normally, ANSWER's estimate is 3 times the number that actually show
>up, so is this a sign of their desperation?
Well, according to Andy Kopkind's classic formula:
attendance = average(2*cop estimate,.5*organizers' estimate),
and taking the midpoint of the cop estimate, we get
average(30000,50000)
or
40,000.
Not the stuff to make the empire quake in its boots.
Doug