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They're also only getting metrics from people willing to be Neilsen reporters. What kind of compensation do they offer to do this? How many people refuse, bec
by Arizhel 9y ago
They're also only getting metrics from people willing to be Neilsen reporters. What kind of compensation do they offer to do this? How many people refuse, because they can't be bothered with it? Is someone who makes $150k going to have any interest in being a part of this? If not, then the results are skewed because you're only getting the lower-income people. What about people who don't have a TV; how are they measuring that?
I posit that viewership numbers have been "robust and consistent" because they're picking people who fit that.
- zzalpha 9y agoPossible. It presumes, of course, that there aren't multiple ways that viewership is measured beyond just nielsen, and that in 50 years no one considered this possibility and developed methods to unskew the data. Possible? Yes. Likely? I struggle to believe it.
- Godel_unicode 9y agoYou might wish to consider how many people in the US make "$150k", and then reconsider if excluding them would be representative. Also, all the cable providers sell aggregate/anonymous statistics about TV viewership. Because of SDV, they know what channel your Cable box is tuned to.
- Arizhel 9y agoMaking $150k in the US is nothing remarkable, especially if you're a dual-earner family. Good luck affording decent housing in many metro areas if you make less than that.
- scarface74 9y agohttp://money.cnn.com/calculator/pf/income-rank/ http://money.cnn.com/calculator/pf/income-rank/ If you have a household income of $150K you are in the top 13% of earners.
- Arizhel 9y agoSo what? That's irrelevant, because housing costs vary dramatically in different markets. $150k isn't going to buy you a nice house in Silicon Valley, maybe an efficiency condo at best.
- scarface74 9y agoIt's always an option to move. There are plenty of opportunities outside of SV.
- Arizhel 9y agoYes, in places like Seattle, NYC, Boston, DC, etc., where the housing costs are also astronomical, and your salary is commensurately lower.
- scarface74 9y agohttp://www.businessinsider.com/cities-us-software-engineer-ranked-salary-cost-living-2015-6 http://www.businessinsider.com/cities-us-software-engineer-r...
- Arizhel 9y agoAccording to your link, San Jose is #2, right behind Seattle, for software engineers as far as salary/CoL ratio. So it really doesn't get much better than Silicon Valley's insane cost of living. It's just like I said: the housing costs may be lower elsewhere, but the salaries are even lower so it isn't worth it. Seattle is the only exception, and it's not that much better.
- scarface74 9y agoI can personally tell you that salaries for your run of the mill enterprise senior softwares developer is between $120K and $145K in Atlanta and you can easily buy a house in the burbs with a good school system for less than $400k. From what I've seen, the same is true for at least the Dallas/Ft. Worth area.