Wyatt Earp would have holstered his Nielsen
Erwin Ephron rounds up some of the everyday fallacies caused by sampling error
Erwin Ephron
'It wasn't his lightning-fast draw or his uncanny accuracy that impressed the town. It was his cool judgement about when to holster his Colt and let common sense handle the problem.'
About Wyatt Earp
Recently, I was at the TV Advertising Bureau talking shop. I suggested buyers could use household ratings to post-evaluate, because there is good evidence that variations in household ratings explain most of the variation in viewer ratings. One researcher fiercely disagreed. Local was different,...