The Greatest Abusers of the Current Ratings System Are

question 30

Multiple Choice

The greatest abusers of the current ratings system are

• A)advertisers, who insist on quantitative rather than qualitative data.
• B)audience members who, when chosen to be part of a ratings sample, alter their viewing and listening habits.
• C)advertisers, networks, and stations, which treat figures as precise measurements rather than as estimates.
• D)ratings services, which ignore sampling error when preparing data.
• E)programmers, who insist on qualitative rather than quantitative data.

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