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irstupid on 10 April 2018
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Helloplite said:
irstupid said:

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.

I didn't say Wikipedia and be done with it. I clearly state I looked at Wikipedia's SOURCE they used. In the article they sourced for their 1.2-2 million number it used the 800,000 number that the organizers touted for DC numbers.

Here below are some sources that refute that, which a simple google search can get for you.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/march-for-our-lives-crowd-size-estimated-200000-people-attended-d-c-march/

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/mar/26/march-our-lives-organizers-inflate-crowd-size-400/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/03/24/march-our-lives-could-become-biggest-single-day-protest-d-c-nations-history/455675002/

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/3/26/17160646/march-for-our-lives-crowd-size-count

All those sources talk about the number being around 200,000 from independent groups who use satellite images and such to take numbers of huge events such as this and womens march. The only 800,000 number used in every article is the number being touted by the "march for our lives" organizers.

Who is a more trusted source? A 3rd party independent group that does this routinely for a living, or the organizers of the event who would want the numbers to be as high as possible.

 

Edit: sorry, read your reply wrong. THought it was criticizing me for disregarding Wikipedia.

Last edited by irstupid - on 10 April 2018