Subject: Re: Unfair TV Ratings - Ron Reagan show (TP/30Something)
From: phil@eecs.nwu.edu (William LeFebvre)
Date: 1991-08-28, 15:21
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv,alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <56693@apple.Apple.COM>, unknown@Apple.COM (Matt Ackeret) writes:

|> I'm not saying that the Nielsen families ARE a statistically valid
|> sample.. they probably aren't.

I don't want to get in to the position of defending A.C. Nielsen, but
for what reason do you blithely assume that the Nielsen families
"probably aren't" a statistically valid sample?  Do you have any idea
at all what method the company uses to select those homes?

William LeFebvre
Computing Facilities Manager and Analyst
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Northwestern University
<phil@eecs.nwu.edu>