Originally posted by Brian Wallace:
P.S. Speaking of things you don't believe in... Does anyone here know a Nielsen family. Viewership for every television program is computed by a survey and I've never known ANY Nielsen family whose tv habits are tallied. I think the "ratings" you get for TV programs are highly biased.
several years ago i was regularly contacted to give my opinions on music, primarily alternative. the would call, play snippets of a song, ask if i was familiar with it and if i liked it. right before i moved out to california, they called again, but before they played any music, they asked how old i was, i told them i was 30, and said, oh, you are no longer qualified to participate in the survey. i believe the calls were from a record company, and the survey takers were always funny when i said i hated a song or a band, and they'd say, yeah, i hate it too.
