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From: chris@minnie.UUCP (Chris Grevstad)
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Subject: Re: polling and statistics
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Date: Thu, 20-Mar-86 12:54:33 EST
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lauren@vortex.UUCP (Lauren Weinstein) says:
>Just a technical point about polling.  Comparing Usenet polls of this
>sort to Gallup, Nielson (they're the ones with the boxes on the TV's,
>not Arbitron), ...

Just a small thing here.  My family was recently a Nielson family and they did
NOT hook up a box to our tv.  Rather, they gave us a logbook in which we
recorded our viewing for the day.  ALthough there were some shows that I did
not watch that I think are worthwhile, I was sorely tempted to report that I
did watch them.  This certainly makes me wonder about the validity of the
Nielson ratings.

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