Subject: Re: Unfair TV Ratings - Ron Reagan show (TP/30Something) From: gwangung@milton.u.washington.edu (Just another theatre geek.....) Date: 1991-08-29, 13:45 Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv,alt.tv.twin-peaks In article <1991Aug29.181319.15006@rodan.acs.syr.edu> retants@rodan.acs.syr.edu writes: !In article <1991Aug28.222140.18463@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> phil@eecs.nwu.edu (William LeFebvre) writes: !!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, Let's not. Sample size of 4,000 is perfectly adequate. Folks who've taken statistics know this. 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). I think you've heard wrong. -- Roger Tang, gwangung@milton.u.washington.edu; Uncle Bonsai Memorial Fan Club "Originally, I got into theatre to pick up girls. Unfortunately, all I found were women."