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They probably figure out the average amount of people that watch the game per TV Set.
Quote from: Javier on February 07, 2011, 04:07:54 PMThey probably figure out the average amount of people that watch the game per TV Set. how?
Quote from: .:DaYg0sTyLz:. on February 07, 2011, 04:21:08 PMQuote from: Javier on February 07, 2011, 04:07:54 PMThey probably figure out the average amount of people that watch the game per TV Set. how?It's all based on the same thing polls are based on. Only so many people have Nielsen boxes and they each represents demographics in each area. In the end it's just a guess based on some math and stats. No one can say for sure what the real number was. But I think we can all agree that it would have been over 500 million in the US alone if Brady was playing it this year. 200 million people would have legally immigrated just to tune into him on US soil.
Quote from: Shallow on February 07, 2011, 05:12:43 PMQuote from: .:DaYg0sTyLz:. on February 07, 2011, 04:21:08 PMQuote from: Javier on February 07, 2011, 04:07:54 PMThey probably figure out the average amount of people that watch the game per TV Set. how?It's all based on the same thing polls are based on. Only so many people have Nielsen boxes and they each represents demographics in each area. In the end it's just a guess based on some math and stats. No one can say for sure what the real number was. But I think we can all agree that it would have been over 500 million in the US alone if Brady was playing it this year. 200 million people would have legally immigrated just to tune into him on US soil.I know how only so many people have Nielsen boxes. What Im saying is, how are they able to determine how many people are watching per house? Some people watch by themselves...while others have 20 people over.
The people that are randomly selected to be part of the Nielsen thing have to send in reports on what they watched. I assume for the Super Bowl, they have say how many people will be watching it or watched it in their home. Get an average, and blow it up nationwide.
Quote from: Javier on February 07, 2011, 07:57:40 PMThe people that are randomly selected to be part of the Nielsen thing have to send in reports on what they watched. I assume for the Super Bowl, they have say how many people will be watching it or watched it in their home. Get an average, and blow it up nationwide. Just sounds SO inaccurate. The numbers could easily be off by a few million lol. With people watching at others houses, people at sports bars, etc.
Superbowl is like thanksgiving and xmas, there isnt much else to do at that time unless you're working so everyone is attending some superbowl party. But the thing is only like 10% of the party is actually watching the game, most other people are just drinking, eating and chit chatting.
thats actually surprising. i could see if a NY team, or patriots, or dallas. (i even get it with steelers) but still. my question is, in the last 5 years, has viewership perpetually went up? that would make the most sense to me