Claims that Donald Trump's rally in South Carolina attracted 50,000 have been questioned by critics.
spoke to Professor Keith Still, a published expert in crowd risk analysis.with a series of rough estimates, using an assumption that two to three people occupied each square meter."We can see in the images, spaces between people, specifically in the stage area, so this is not at maximum capacity," he said.
"To me, it looks around two to three max—making this a maximum of 20,000 to 30,000 across all areas, but not all spaces are full—so the lower number is more likely. Until there are final verifiable figures that confirm not only the number of people who booked tickets to attend , and more documentary evidence of the whole audience , we can't say with certainty whether it did reach 50,000.
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