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Authorities have meanwhile rounded up hundreds of suspects. Security forces have stepped up their presence in major cities and have been conducting spot checks of mobile phones for political content. Sisi, in New York for the U. Since then, Egypt has introduced valued-added tax, devalued the currency and raised the prices of electricity and fuel. Sisi remains popular among many ordinary people for stabilizing Egypt after the fall of Hosni Mubarak in led to turmoil that scared away tourists and foreign investors, and brought the public finances close to collapse.
Another approach is to physically count the number of people moving past a particular point along the moving crowd's route - but how do you account for the people who join the procession at a later location, or for the people who pass by on more than one occasion?
For the past 10 years, Yip has been monitoring the number of people taking part in the annual Hong Kong 1 July protests, which mark the handover of sovereignty from Britain to China. The counting method he favours is to physically count the crowd at two points - A and B. At the second point, B, he also surveys the people passing by, asking them if they walked past point A.
In that way, he minimises the problem of double-counting. Over the past 10 years, he says, the gap between an organisers' estimate and the police's has been getting wider and wider. This year, the police claimed 66, took to the streets.
The organisers say it was , Yip estimates it was more like , The organisers tend to exaggerate the number to try to get more political force, he says but, in his opinion, this damages their cause. One hundred thousand people on the street already sends a strong message to the Hong Kong government that people want change, he says. So this huge number itself has become a very negative thing to the organisers.
Counting crowds has become so much more about public relations and point-scoring than a quest for the truth, he observes. You can follow the Magazine on Twitter and on Facebook. The Royal Statistical Society. Significance Magazine.
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