MSNBC In Their Screen Crawl Is Saying An Estimated 185,000 Students From 3100 Schools.....

[global1]

walked out of school yesterday to protest gun violence. I think they are purposely underestimating the number of students that were involved in this walk out. If you divide the # of schools into their estimate of students - you get only 60 students per school.

If you watched the coverage of this walkout - I think you'd see that there were more than just 60 students per school out there protesting.

Now why would they make such a visible underestimate?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Why are you assuming they are intentionally underestimating the number?

MSNBC covered the walkouts in what I thought was a very positive way, and I can't think why they'd have a motive for intentionally underestimating the numbers. At some schools hundreds participated; at others it might have been only a handful.

[deminks]

2. We had 400 from one middle school here.

There were hundreds and hundreds of kids that participated. Hundreds from one high school marched to the capitol building. The paper had pictures from each shool. Even surrounding schools from tiny communities.

And that was just us.

[Igel]

8. Would they show coverage of a school that had 5 kids walk out?

And then those five kids looking sheepish and returning to class?

No.

The sample pulled for coverage isn't random but the assumption is that it was.

Even here one DUer said that his (her?) school had 19 kids walk out. Now, that might be covered, but not by MSNBC.

My middle-school kid wasn't about to walk out. At the time he was at 30k feet elevation on a plane heading to his spring break field trip.

(I also doubt the "gun violence" given the diversity of signs. For a lot of kids it was "I want to protest," and while they were protesting police brutality or something else local they were all swept into the "they're protesting guns used against children at school" protest.)

[Phoenix61]

3. I think that number is probably correct

Sure, there were large schools that had several hundred students walk out but there were a lot of smaller schools that had much less.

[marybourg]

5. And maybe some schools had few

Or none and no TV cameras there.

[salin]

6. our local schools are on Spring Break.

So kids rallied at the courthouse instead of at the schools.

[oberliner]

4. You are reading into things

MSNBC is not purposely underestimating the number of students that were involved in this walk out.

[beachbum bob]

7. think if they were all 18 and registered to vote and all vote and how many races

would just the increase in their voting would elect democrats? I dare say the more republicans (conservatives, NRA lovers) diss these young people, the more new democratic voters we will have come Nov 2018 and 2018