On counting crowds
Just got a great email from a man named Michael. He wrote:
“On crowd estimates, Andrew Kopkind, the late New Left journalist had
this rule…Take whatever the organizers say and divide by two, then
take what the police say and multiply that by two, take those two
‘adjusted’ figures and add ‘em, then divide that by two, and you are
likely to arrive at something close to truth.”
Pretty good.






