Subject: Re: Unfair TV Ratings - Ron Reagan show (TP/30Something) From: glad@Csli.Stanford.EDU (Clayton Glad) Date: 1991-08-29, 14:27 Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv,alt.tv.twin-peaks In <1991Aug29.181319.15006@rodan.acs.syr.edu> retants@rodan.acs.syr.edu writes: > >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. Nope. My household was a Nielsen Family a little while ago. They did ask us for some demographic information and we let them know that * there were three of us, two males, one female, all unrelated, all unmarried * that none of us were gainfully employed at the moment * that between us there was one PhD and two in progress * that we rarely watched network television and listened to no commercial radio station. And in a week our notebook arrived with our crisp new dollar bill. Boy, was there ever a battle over that. -- Clay "When would he learn not to plunge into the glad@csli.stanford.edu labyrinths of an opinion when he had not glad@unix.sri.com the slightest idea of how he was to emerge?" --- Sam Beckett, for Usenet