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Originally Posted by mineistaken
Wrong. I just wanted to ask what was the big deal if the crowd was smaller (and also give some thoughts of why it was smaller).
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There is no big deal about it (other than what the Trump administration has done ot now make it a big deal). Crowd sizes change all the time and you are totally correct that there are many factors that can affect it.
But I disagree with you that the NYTimes made a big deal of it. They wrote an article about the crowd sizes. I don't know if it went in their print issue, I do know it is on their website.
The text does not attack Trump over the crowd size. It discusses a comparison between Trumps and Obamas and references a college professor in England who has some expertise with crowd sizes. They also note that because of the weather they would probably not be able to get an accurate count because they would not be able to get accurate satellite imagery.
The article also includes a couple of images and even notes that the Trump image is before all the people were in the area.
It was a pretty light article actually. Here is the text of the article:
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An analysis of news footage appears to indicate that fewer people attended President Trump?s inauguration than President Obama?s in 2009. The footage on this page was captured 45 minutes before each oath of office. Attendees were still entering the National Mall up until Mr. Trump?s speech.
The analysis by Keith Still, a professor at Manchester Metropolitan University in England, estimates that the crowd on the National Mall on Friday was about one-third the size of Mr. Obama?s.
Professor Still was a crowd safety consultant for the 2011 royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, and has advised the Saudi government on crowds for the hajj, the annual pilgrimage to Mecca.
The initial analysis was limited in scope because footage of a larger area was not yet available. The number of people on the National Mall is typically a fraction of the total crowd that gathers for a presidential inauguration. In 2009, for example, about 460,000 of the estimated 1.8 million people who attended President Obama?s inauguration were on the National Mall.
The cloudy skies above this year?s inauguration means that there will likely be no clear satellite imagery of Washington. Without satellite imagery it is difficult to make a complete and accurate estimate of crowd size.
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https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...ion-crowd.html
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