[quote name=\'PYLdude\' post=\'120914\' date=\'Jun 9 2006, 05:27 PM\']
Way to totally miss my point. My point was that he was speaking GEOGRAPHICALLY. You were speaking in Nielsen-ratings terms.
I suggest you take your own advice and get a refund on your education, and go further and pay back all the tax dollars your parents paid to put YOU through school, if you're gonna be insulting like that for no apparent reason.
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I paid my own way, thank you.
And you missed my point, geography is an irrelevant argument. The ratings system as devised by Nielsen is used as a tool to give broadcasters and advertisers a feel on how to charge or be charged for commercial time on a television program. The rating is based on a sampling of people watching television at any one point. The Nielsen people do not call people per square mile, they call people regardless of their geography, and 80% of them happen to be in the Eastern or Central time zones.
Even if this was for some absurd reason geographically based, it's not half the country, it's about 40%. Don't forget Alaska.
Next time you want a battle of wits, please come armed.
--Mike