{"id":4057,"date":"2003-02-22T11:41:12","date_gmt":"2003-02-22T16:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=4057"},"modified":"2003-02-22T11:41:12","modified_gmt":"2003-02-22T16:41:12","slug":"doing_the_numbe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/02\/22\/doing_the_numbe.html","title":{"rendered":"Doing the numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An aerial survey and analysis of protesters in San Francisco last Sunday has come up with a number significantly smaller than either police or organizer estimates, <a title=\"Photos put peace marchers at 65,000\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2003\/02\/21\/COUNT.TMP\">65k<\/a> instead of 200k.<\/p>\n<p>The results?  The police and the organizers both agree that the analysis is goofy.  Not that they have any particular methodology they can point to for their own numbers, just that the picture proof (which is actually in line with BART estimates) &#8220;feels&#8221; too small.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An aerial survey and analysis of protesters in San Francisco last Sunday has come up with a number significantly smaller than either police or organizer estimates, 65k instead of 200k&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hi-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3857,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/03\/20\/winning_friends.html","url_meta":{"origin":4057,"position":0},"title":"Winning friends and influencing people","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 20-Mar-03 9:07pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Or, \"Winning the Battle, Losing the War\" Street protests in San Francisco have resulted in over a thousand arrests. 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