tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9077197998710271518.post8677986308625490029..comments2023-05-05T02:35:43.705-07:00Comments on j.linx: another riff on numbersbarbara kelleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14533260231323483720noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9077197998710271518.post-47718547259914863062008-11-10T15:16:00.000-08:002008-11-10T15:16:00.000-08:00Thanks for writing this.Thanks for writing this.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9077197998710271518.post-25669361527238037922008-09-15T15:16:00.000-07:002008-09-15T15:16:00.000-07:00This same thing came up in my intro reporting clas...This same thing came up in my intro reporting class at Columbia when we all had to gather reaction from the Obama acceptance speech. In our stories, the stadium crowd ranged from 76,000 to 84,000, along with a middle-of-the-road "about 80,000." <BR/><BR/>My professor brought it up the discrepancy to make the same point you are making. And when we looked online at professional news stories, we found the same variance.<BR/><BR/>As for me? I didn't use the stadium crowd size in my story, just my own 130-person estimation of the crowd at the bar where I covered the speech.Jeremy Herbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07243908611223408151noreply@blogger.com