The fun part of Dainty's rant is that the left are those who claim to support scientific evidence. Aerial imagery is NOT scientific. So say real scientists who actually do crowd estimates based on scientific methodology. Just sayin'.
The weirdness of the right as exemplified by Cli-Boil's parading of her ignorance.
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Crowd counting services
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Digital Design & Imaging Service, the company that studied crowd size at the Beck rally, uses a tethered balloon at an altitude of 800 feet. The balloon is equipped with a high-definition digital camera and a fiber-optic link to the ground -
The Science -- or Art? -- of Measuring Crowds : Science Channel
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On The Media: Transcript of "The Art and Artifice of Counting Crowds" (September 3, 2010)
CARL HOLMBERG: People get upset. [LAUGHS] The sponsors do, anyway. And the Million Man March certainly is not the only one. We had others that wanted to take us to court. Certainly many antiwar rallies thought that we had shortchanged them.
And so Congress in I believe it was our 1997 Appropriations Bill directed the Park Police to stop estimating crowds.
BROOKE GLADSTONE: Do you wish that Congress would once again reauthorize the Park Police to reissue those numbers?
CARL HOLMBERG: Well, if they want accurate numbers, or as accurate a number as they can get, then they should. If they're happy with just having everybody name their own number, then I guess thatÂ’s up to Congress.
BROOKE GLADSTONE: So, there you have it folks, just another of many inconvenient truths.
[MUSIC UP AND UNDER]
The difference here is that this one has been neatly legislated out of existence.
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Glenn Beck Rally Attracts Estimated 87,000 - Political Hotsheet - CBS News
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STEVE DOIG: Absolutely. I would never swear that exactly 80,000 people were there. Actually, I had one commenter on my blog about this who sent me a note saying, well, there had to be at least 100 people in Porta Potties at the time of the image. And I said, okay, my estimate now is 80,100.
The Science -- or Art? -- of Measuring Crowds : Science Channel