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→How many people does each attendee educate?: I can live without being Voltaire...
::Conservative, would you also want to give us a phone number to ring to ascertain that the sky is blue??? Sapere aude, my friend - dare to know for yourself! Yes, rigor is paramount to an encyclopedia, but where truths are uncontentious, jumping through hoops to fulfil some misguided notion of "due process" is a simple waste of time. Please, stop trying to censor this article.--[[User:CPalmer|CPalmer]] 08:45, 25 January 2012 (EST)
::Conservative, would you also want to give us a phone number to ring to ascertain that the sky is blue??? Sapere aude, my friend - dare to know for yourself! Yes, rigor is paramount to an encyclopedia, but where truths are uncontentious, jumping through hoops to fulfil some misguided notion of "due process" is a simple waste of time. Please, stop trying to censor this article.--[[User:CPalmer|CPalmer]] 08:45, 25 January 2012 (EST)
:::I'm not opposed to a ''quantified estimate'', I'm against an estimate which is disguised as a fact - as it is done here: '''The influence of the March for Life is approximately 20 times its attendance, as the average person who attends communicates his participation to 20 others''' Where does the '''fact''' that the average person communicates his participation to 20 others come from? I'm missing a phrase like ''it can be estimated that the average persons communicates his participation to 20 others''.
:::And still then it would be nice to see whether such an estimate holds, whether it was done with other events, etc - we spoke about the problem of overlap...
:::So, I disagree which the way some things are said, and I disagree with the way they are presented (estimates disguised as facts, for instance). And obviously, I don't think that wrong or even only misleading statements should be made in a truthful encyclopedia - whatever Voltaire's point of view on this subject may have been.
:::[[User:AugustO|AugustO]] 09:01, 25 January 2012 (EST)