Re: Doctor Who: RTD in the Radio Times.

On 17/06/2024 12:27, The Last Doctor wrote:

Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:

Hornplayer9599 wrote on 17/6/24 9:38 am:

On 6/16/2024 16:21, Blueshirt wrote:
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We have a figure of 40,000 total viewers for the first 2 episodes
on Disney+ from Doomcock and unless Disney+ publishes figures
which contradict that then Doomcock must be accepted as the most
accurate figure available.

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Okay, George, let's take Doomcock's figures at face value...even
though he himself said that they were unverifiable, and hasn't
mentioned them since (he's only dealt with the UK numbers since...and
as you know, those /are/ verified).

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I don't know what happens now but, back in the Day, Some small portion
of the population (maybe 0.1%) would actually be surveyed as to what
they watched on their T.V.'s, how many in the Household watched, the
economic standing of household members, etc, and these numbers were
multiplied up to give 'population' numbers.
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Is this still, effectively, what happens in Britain and Ireland??
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If so, I could understand why it might take sooooo long for Disney to
come up with a number for the rest of the world.

 BARB use a compound system - a sample of 7,000 households (about 16,000
people) is taken who use a special remote to say when they enter or leave a
TV enabled room. In those rooms is a box that continuously samples the TV
audio and matches it every night to determine what live TV and “recorded on
my box” programmes were being watched, by whom, and for how long.

How do they know if the people in the room are actually watching each show and don't just have the TV on in the background while they are talking to each other about something completely different, or eating, or doing the housework?
How do they know what programme is being watched if someone is listening to the audio on headphones so as not to disturb others in the room?
How do they work out what the programme is if the conversation in the room is much much louder than the television or if the noise from inside or outside like someone hovering or mowing the lawn drowns out the sound in the room?
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separate box is coupled to the wi-fi router to capture what subscription
and SVOD services are being accessed and when, also matched to TV audio and
the viewer counter.

What if they're using LTE or G3, 4 or 5 to connect to the internet on their PC or using their mobile phone as a Wi-Fi hotspot?
How do they know if they're watching a torrent instead of a legitimate download from a streaming service?

 The number of households has increased down the years as overall viewing
numbers have reduced and distribution across an ever increasing number of
channels has diluted the totals so to ensure that statistical accuracy is
maintained, the sample size has had to increase.
 

Crap degenerate woke writing is what has resulted in fewer people watching. If the writing is good people will still watch in the numbers they did before.

Those figures are extrapolated to give the U.K. total viewing figures using
standard statistical methods. 0.025% of the population is deemed sufficient

You mean fiddled using made up assumptions about demographics which have never been tested in practice. Look how election pollsters keep getting the election result wrong even using even bigger samples. Do you remember 1992 and 2010? Good to see the SDP are back.

for this (7,000 out of 28m households).
 BARB also take a survey every week of 1,000 random households to update the
panel requirements to ensure the right demographic and household balance is
maintained across the 10 categories of household (Couple with no children,
with 1-2 dependent children, one person household - 65 or over and under
65, lone parent with dependent children, couple with non-dependent children
only,
lone parent with non-dependent children only,
couple with 3 or more dependent children, two or more unrelated adults,
multi-family household) and their social categories and viewing habits.
 

What about black people, Asian people, people whose first language is not English, immigrants, second generation immigrants, illegal immigrants, homosexuals, people with physical or mental dissimilitudes, and dwarfs? Isn't that supposed to be Doctor Whoke's target audience?

They also capture big data from all streaming providers to get a pattern of
SVOD viewing that they compare to their panel results for reasonableness -
but they don’t use the big data figures directly because they measure by
device, not viewers.
 

So they fiddle the streaming service data too. Good work.
I'll stick with my YouTube statistics which are based on a sample of 11,000.
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