Anyone else concerned

[BillSU]

That wazzu bails because of a lack of players?

NO!

 

[NineOneSeven]

I personally don't mind that this will most likely be a blowout; last year we suffered the worst loss in FBS bowl history. IDC that many of you said it didn't matter, it did. Block S.

Now we will get to be the hammer instead of the nail.

And yes this counts (obviously) and it will be the most watched game of the entire season. Even more than the Miami game. Prime time on Fox.

LFG.

Uhhhh… why?

Edit- see this has been addressed

 

[kingtidge]

Is there such a thing as bowl-week walk-ons?

Are we gonna find out??

 

[Cusefan95]

Measurement is an art, you don't necessarily need to observe things directly.

Say you have a ruler and need to measure the thickness of a sheet of paper. That's tough. But you can measure a stack of 500 sheets and then divide the result by 500. The result is imperfect, but good enough for most purposes.

If you measure the caliper of a sheet of paper that way repeatedly you can check what the actual caliper is from the manufacturer and calculate your accuracy (% error).

What’s more interesting is how to assess accuracy of polling data or TV ratings, where there isn’t a known standard you’re measuring against. Because the accuracy is an unknown to the average consumer, we tend to use confirmation bias instead - we believe the info we want to, ignore the info that goes against our personal narrative. It’s probably a leading cause of how divisive our society is becoming - there’s too much data and information to effectively process, so we confirmation bias ourselves into two mutually exclusive camps.

There’s a reasonable chance that “low information” people have the least biased, most accurate worldview as a result. Maybe turning into an idiocracy won’t be such a bad thing..,

 

[BomberOrange]

At a really broad level, there's basically 2 major methodologies in TV measurement these days. Nielsen largely employs a panel method. They have about 40,000 homes with Nielsen TV metering technology installed. That data is cleaned and weighted to represent the U.S. population.

Other measurement firms (including mine) employ a big data method. They measure viewing on millions of smart TV sets via a process called Automated Content Recognition. Now, that data also has to be cleaned and weighted represent the U.S. population, but its coming from millions of more inputs than a panel.

Both my firm and Nielsen include what's called "out of home" viewing in their audience projections. We do it very differently, however.

Thank you for the explanation! Much appreciated.

 

[longtimefan]

Plus, a mile is a measure of distance.

So is a Light Year.

 

[OrangePA]

That wazzu bails because of a lack of players?

Yes

 

[upperdeck]

Thank you for the explanation! Much appreciated.

Yup. And since by law ACR requires an opt in now we have no idea how many people its actually missing.

It captures everything so its pretty scary tech.

Its how Youtube shuts down videos so fast though.