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Hey, Answerman! [2008-09-19]

jsevakis wrote:

At least Nielsen Media Research TRIES to be scientific about their polling methods, and has improved in recent years, though there's still a lot to be desired in their accuracy.

Tries =/= Accurate. Like I ask, how is it that one Households Viewing Habits = XXXXXX households in the USA? So if this one household say, orders PPV Shows and watches Showtime exclusively, that means the other households in that representation also does the exact same thing? Or howabout a Household that just airs TBN and other Christian Channels? Howabout one that just only watches Deadliest Catch?

It's a flawed way to obtain ratings and needs to be dumped in favor of other more accurate methods.

But let's say IF we were in some whacked 72nd Dimension where you CAN divide by zero...Team Venture would pwn all.

vashfanatic wrote:

But yeah, especially the older I get, the more I become sick of everyone in anime being 15, even when it makes no sense whatsoever for them to be 15 (this my only complaint about Gankutsuou, for example).

I agree with the sentiment in general, but how did it not make sense for some of the characters to be teenagers in Gankutsuou? I'm pretty sure Albert was just turning sixteen in the original Dumas story, and it seems natural that most of his friends would be a similar age. Plus, he couldn't have been made much older without having to alter the Edmond Dantes chronology.

At that age a great upheaval is happening in your life. For some it's a ripple and for others it is lafe altering, sometimes to destruction. That kind of dynamism is precisely what can make a good story. Regardless of that story being physically set in school or elsewhere, people undergo changes in body and mind at that age which makes good stories plausable, while also alowing the stupid stuff and lack of subtlety of that age drive things.

When you are older, a lot of your rough edges have been worn away by life and regret, and the stories are different. But the changes of teen years, AND the interaction between older experience and young brashness make a story that moves... because life also can move like that. Much of the background stroy of full metal panic has older interactions with younger protagonists, and often points to where the elders would take the safer road where the young wish not to.

Isn't InuYasha vacating that 5 AM slot? I don't think it killed InuYasha. (Nothing can kill Inu?)

Inu-Yasha finished it's run at 12:30am. You're thinking of the reruns. The many many many reruns of the show...

Unless you meant the fact that they still air the reruns and that it's showing 5am in the first place. I just don't understand why.

that 5:30 am "death slot" is basically where shows go to die.

That means if we weight each of those 100 people as 100 viewers (100 x 100 = 10,000) then we can find the approximate number that likely watched out of the full 10,000.

Hon'ya-chan wrote:

It's a flawed way to obtain ratings and needs to be dumped in favor of other more accurate methods.

Such as?

Showsni wrote:

Hon'ya-chan wrote: It's a flawed way to obtain ratings and needs to be dumped in favor of other more accurate methods. Such as?

We're still waiting for some examples, Hon'ya-chan.

Give people the option to opt out to protect their privacy if they wish, (which would probably scew the rating of stuff like pornography downwards, but nothings perfect).

Well I for one can't believe that in this day of interactive television functionality a signal can't be sent back with channel requests and a log kept of the time spent watching each channel. Amalgamate the results, compare those to the schedule and your sample size has gone up considerably. Give people the option to opt out to protect their privacy if they wish, (which would probably scew the rating of stuff like pornography downwards, but nothings perfect).