During the pandemic I have seen lots of evidence to support Bartlett& #39;s claim

"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function".

Watching the counts of the anti-lockdown march go up, maybe I haven& #39;t given people enough credit.https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="đź§µ" title="Thread" aria-label="Emoji: Thread">
4,000 - MyLondon
10,000 - Independent
Tens of thousands - Guardian
50,000+ - Laurence Fox
Hundreds of Thousands - James Melville
Many Hundreds of Thousands - Francis Hoar
500,000 - Jenny Rickson
(>100,000 Ex District Councillor Paul Dakers)
600,000-700,000 - Francis Hoar (again)
1,000,000 - Adam Stratford
If you& #39;re interested in understanding the maths behind crowd counting then you can find out a bit more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowd_counting">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crow...
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