From: joe_f@verizon.net   
      
   Martha Bridegam  writes:   
      
   > "...Organizers estimated the crowd at more than 300,000, but that   
   > could not be confirmed. Washington police do not make official crowd   
   > estimates, although Chief Charles Ramsey said a figure of at least   
   > 150,000 was ``as good a guess as any.''..."   
      
   Among numbers to be routinely disbelieved, crowd sizes are right up   
   there with church membership statistics, circulations of periodicals,   
   and penis lengths.  If you are on the spot, there are a couple of ways   
   you can form an independent opinion.  Failing that, at a guess, a good   
   rule of thumb is to take the geometric mean of the figures given by   
   the leaders of the demonstration & by the police.  So, make it   
   212,132.034.   
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