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Originally Posted by DamianJ
Wow. The US must be way cool if they can track every TV in the land and figure out accurate viewing figures!
I always thought you guys used Neilson boxes to do viewership of a tv show, which is a tiny teeny sample. Boy do I feel stupid not knowing about this amazing technology.
Do you have a link to it, because all I can find about how viewing numbers work in the States is about Neilson. How wak and out of date!
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If you understood even the basics of statistics you'd understand you don't need a HUGE sample to get accurate stats. For example a CNN exit poll of 18,000 voters in the 2008 election showed that 53% of the people responding voted for Obama. Overall Obama won 53% of the vote. Hmmm. Funny how just 18,000 votes exactly predicted the results of 125 million votes. That's 1/7 of 1%