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[prog]

I got invited, via phone call, to participate in the Nielsen rating program today. I only dimly recall signing up for the program via TiVo two years ago, and it seems they finally pulled my name from the hat. So after I sign an agreement giving them permission to regularly poll usage data from my TiVo, I will commence helping to decide who lives and who dies.

Suddenly your TV recommendations to me have become much more heavy, hm? Bring them on...

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[prog.livejournal.com]

I wasn't told anything like that. And anyway, that would be an incredibly stupid rule that nobody would follow, surely?

[dougo.livejournal.com]

I think the point is to make sure no one who has connections to the TV industry will try to target you because they know you're a Nielsen household—it's supposed to be a random sample, and that would bias it. (Err, I mean "target" as in "advertise to", not, you know, "put a hit out on".)

[prog.livejournal.com]

Nod, this occurred to me earlier today. Regardless, it strikes me as a rule with good intentions and no sense of reality. On the third hand, the lady who was very obviously reading from a script didn't say anything about any of this, so whatev.