Estimating the Sizes of Sports Crowds
- 1 December 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Perceptual and Motor Skills
- Vol. 59 (3) , 723-729
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pms.1984.59.3.723
Abstract
Slides taken of stands in a sports stadium portraying crowds of from 8 to 1122 people were viewed by 137 observers. The observers tended to underestimate the actual numbers in the crowds; the accuracy of their estimates depended on the stand in which the crowds were situated and whether the observers viewed a training slide. Underestimation of size of a crowd is consistent with previous research on visual numerosity, but exponents of the power-law function relating estimated to actual numbers were in the range 0.95 to 1.13, higher than those found previously.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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