Subject: Re: Unfair TV Ratings - Ron Reagan show (TP/30Something)
From: retants@rodan.acs.syr.edu
Date: 1991-08-29, 11:13
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv,alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <1991Aug28.222140.18463@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> phil@eecs.nwu.edu (William LeFebvre) writes:
> >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?

Well, let's start with the pitifully small sample size, and then continue
on the the fact that , last time i heard, all the Nielsen Families were
mom, dad, and 2 kids (preferably a dog and a white picket fence as well).
That is a DEFINATE minority in this age of 50% divorce rates and people
staying single until well into thier 30's. 

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