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   XPost: rec.arts.tv, alt.tv.scifi.channel   
   From: your.name@isp.com   
      
   In article , cloud dreamer   
    wrote:   
      
   > On 14/11/2010 4:26 PM, Your Name wrote:   
   > > "cloud dreamer"  wrote in message   
   > > news:qK2dndZVm4t1q33RnZ2dnUVZ_qudnZ2d@supernews.com...   
   > >>   
   > >> That's not how the rating system works. Neilsen has a set number of   
   > >> meters out there in selected homes. They base their numbers on them and   
   > >> extrapolate total viewership from the sample set.   
   > >   
   > > Translation:   
   > > Neilsen has a dozen meters out there in home that were vetoed by Neilsen to   
   > > fit their own specifications. They base their numbers on them and   
   guessimate   
   > > total viewreship from the ridiculously small sample set. Neilsen then   
   > > pretend that such results mean anything useful, and the numbnuts in the   
   > > management of networks blindly believe that and / or manipulate that to get   
   > > what they want.   
   >   
   > If that were the case, you'd think someone would have figured it out by   
   > now...after how many decades??????   
      
   Those with intleeigence and common sense already know it. Those making   
   money out of it don't give a damn. Those too stupid or naive to won't ever   
   know it.   
      
      
      
   > Irrelevent anyway. Won't be long before they'll be harvesting live   
   > accurate data from DVRs.   
      
   Not if the "Big Brother is watching you" conspiracy nutters get their way,   
   like they usually do.   
      
   DVRs are irrelevant anyway. TV and movie companies will simply count the   
   number of downloads ... which again gives misleading and inaccurate   
   numbers since one download could equal any amount of viewers.   
      
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