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Helloplite on 10 April 2018
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irstupid said:
Jaicee said:                               
      

Estimates of the turnout for the main march in Washington DC vary a little (though I've not heard any mere 200,000 estimation yet and wonder what your source on that is), but it is worth saying that the total turnout nationwide has been widely estimated at between 1.2 and a full 2 million. It wasn't exactly an insignificant development.

Incidentally, 10% of 1.6 million (going for a median estimate here) is still 160,000 kids under the age of 18 and that's nothing to sneeze at, in my opinion. That figure by itself is significantly larger than most protest actions are in grand total attendance.

   

Your source is Wikipedia, which if you go down and use the sources they used to get their info, you can see that they are wrong.

The source they used, touts the organization saying that 800,000 people showed up in DC. Multiple experts and analysts put that actual number between 180,000-210,000. That is a 1/4 of that number or 600,000 less. In just one of the protest locations.

So how am I to trust that 1.6 million number when already I know from just ONE location they are inflating the numbers by 600,000?

Even going from the 2,000,000 high end, a 600,000 discrepancy is 30% less. If we start at the 1.2 million, it is 50% less.

Or you could just say 'lol Wikipedia' and be done with it. Anyone who seriously quotes Wikipedia needs a tutorial on what Wikipedia is, how it works, and why it is not a credible resource for anything other than getting accustomed with a concept.