I'm black and I love Seinfeld. But demographics say this can't be true h!


Question:

I'm black and I love Seinfeld. But demographics say this can't be true how do they know which race is watching


Its not like they have cameras and stuff. How can they even guess which race is watching what shows. They say that black people don't watch Seinfeld. What???!!!


Answers: Because statistics are a waste of time and highly inaccurate. I've fallen asleep with the t.v. on so many times, and "watched" shows I would NEVER choose if I was awake-so my statistics are mixed in, too.
I'm glad you like Seinfeld- put your feet up, open a cool one, and enjoy!! We've got to put a stop to relying on polls & surveys, statistics, "experts", and the like. Let's just be people. nielsen statistics! Through surveys and those boxes that they put in peoples homes. When they install a box ( the people allow this) to monitor what people are watching they collect the information in the house like age, race sex and such. actually they do

they take a percentage and put monitors on there tv,s to see what they watch

for example if you live in the states , i am guessing here but for arguments sake

the black population is 40 percent , mexicans 10 percent and white 50 percent

they will hook up say 1,000 homes with these devices ( the people get paid for doing this )

and it would be 400 black homes ( 40 percent ) , 100 mexican homes ( 10 percent ), and 500 white homes ( 50 percent ) , and they would check what they watch


i hope this makes some kind of sense

but thats how they get what is known as demographics

all the best
Ian First, you must have misread or misheard. I bet they didn't say that no black people ever watched Seinfeld, they probably said that few have, or that most don't like it or something.

There are 2 ways they could know this: Nielsen ratings (in which case, they monitor everything on TV in that household, and collect demographic information -- actually, whose the household based on getting a representative sample, demographically), or by poll, where they also ask a bunch of demographic information.

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