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>I think the protester in Tianemen square had more of a chance than the students in Kent State. There was literally ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE more killed at Tianemen

• autokad 8y ago
  I was curious to if this is true. but what does the data say? there were only 4 killed at kent, and anywhere between 1k-10k killed at Tianemen square. However, for 'more of a chance', you have to consider the denominator. https://www.britannica.com/event/Tiananmen-Square-incident https://www.britannica.com/event/Tiananmen-Square-incident from this, we get at least 1 million people at the protests, but I dont know how many in one day, etc, so this gets tricky. from wikipedia, I believe there was about 2k at the kent protests. so 4/2000 ~ .002 and 5k (middle of 10k) you get about .005 - but this would vary a lot depending on what numbers you use. to be pedantic (you did say literally), orders of magnitude would suggest a multiplier of at least 10, which it doesn't seem we have. Though I concede, who knows how many really died in the Tianemen protests. Kent is pretty well known, which does say something edit: does say something about the freedoms we have in press