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Oversampling College Students, Underestimating NFL decline
Accuracy in Academia ^ | October 8, 2017 | Malcolm A. Kline

Posted on 10/08/2017 2:11:36 PM PDT by Academiadotorg

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If you're not watching the NFL right now, you're probably not alone.
1 posted on 10/08/2017 2:11:36 PM PDT by Academiadotorg
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To: Academiadotorg

Watching MLB Playoffs, screw the NFL.


2 posted on 10/08/2017 2:13:04 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Academiadotorg

Let them oversample to make them feel better, polls don’t reflect the reality of the hole they dug themselves.


3 posted on 10/08/2017 2:18:18 PM PDT by dila813 (Voting for Trump to Punish Trumpets!Goo)
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To: Academiadotorg

Drove by a sports bar today at 1:00. Parking lot was a quarter full.

Usually this place is completely full on Sundays at 1.

The decline in viewership is more than they think.


4 posted on 10/08/2017 2:20:16 PM PDT by barmag25
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To: Academiadotorg

It’s already a new kind of virtue signaling. Liberals in public places are now going around saying how much they like their NFL team.

What they don’t understand is political correctness will not save the NFL.


5 posted on 10/08/2017 2:22:15 PM PDT by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: dila813

Polls in today’s world mean zilch. The NFL, like the Democrat Party, is dying, killed by the the actions of the NFL Commissioner, the Owners and, the players who have been sent to earth by God Almighty, minus their brains and smarts.


6 posted on 10/08/2017 2:24:12 PM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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To: Academiadotorg

According to these types, an Elected President Trump is also wildly out of step with what most Americans think on the subject.


7 posted on 10/08/2017 2:25:46 PM PDT by Religion and Politics (It's Morning in America)
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To: Academiadotorg

Just to add my own anecdote — we had dinner with some friends the other night, one is a born-n-bred Pittsburgher (Pittsburghian?) who told us he has boxed up all his “Steelers sh*t” and stuck it in the garage. “I’m not ready to burn it yet, but pretty close.” White Repub, 50-something, tech professional. I have to admit I was a little surprised. He’s the husband half of a couple who I’d describe as socially liberal, fiscally conservative. But this kneeling for the anthem crap has him incensed.


8 posted on 10/08/2017 2:27:20 PM PDT by workerbee (America finally has an American president again.)
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Dodgers up 2-0 :)


9 posted on 10/08/2017 2:27:26 PM PDT by BigEdLB (To Dimwitocrats: We won. You loset. Get used to it.)
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The only metric, the only survey that counts is what money the NFL doesn't earn.

Nothing else counts to the owners and the league. As the money drops, they will suddenly become "patriotic" and grimly order their players to stand.

It won't mean anything except rank self-interest, but the point will be made.

Football doesn't exist for the players, or the owners, or the sponsors: it exists for the enthusiasts who pay for the tickets and buy the gear.

10 posted on 10/08/2017 2:29:09 PM PDT by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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Until the MLB players take a knee. Are you listening MLB?!


11 posted on 10/08/2017 2:32:16 PM PDT by dhs12345
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To: BigEdLB

Sox about to break this one wide open.


12 posted on 10/08/2017 2:35:46 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Academiadotorg

College students don’t buy enough tickets to keep up with the NFL’s expenses :)

Boycott them !

BTW Nielsen over samples college students.
It used to be that you chose to participate but now they pick the areas they want participating

http://www.nielsen.com/us/en/about-us/nielsen-families.html

ESPECIALLY FOR COLLEGE STUDENTS
Why am I as a college student so important to Nielsen?

Your family was selected to participate in the Nielsen TV Panel. Even though you are currently living away from home you are still part of the family. It is important for you to continue your normal viewing and have it taken into account. Our Nielsen TV Ratings information lets TV, cable networks and local TV stations know how their programming is doing.


13 posted on 10/08/2017 2:41:07 PM PDT by Lera (1 Corinthians 15:1-4)
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I haven’t watched NFL this season. Today I turned on the TV to NASCAR “just for a little background noise”. After about an hour of that it became so boring I turned off, and doubt if I’ll even bother again.


14 posted on 10/08/2017 2:43:04 PM PDT by Tucker39 (Read: Psalm 145. The whole psalm.....aloud; as praise to our God.)
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To: dfwgator

me too! go Sox!!!!


15 posted on 10/08/2017 2:43:49 PM PDT by jonathan-swift2000 (The Good news from Iraq the MSM won't publish.)
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Sox looking good now.


16 posted on 10/08/2017 2:44:20 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Academiadotorg

Cato is an interest group and thus has an ax to grind. I wouldnt believe their polls unless verified by other surveys.


17 posted on 10/08/2017 2:48:44 PM PDT by Okeydoker
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To: jonathan-swift2000

10-3. But he should have caught that, embarrassing.


18 posted on 10/08/2017 2:55:06 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Okeydoker

And I am as likely to run into liberals there as I am at the Center for American Progress.


19 posted on 10/08/2017 2:59:44 PM PDT by Academiadotorg
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To: jonathan-swift2000

Good job, Sox. Now let’s go Tribe!


20 posted on 10/08/2017 3:20:23 PM PDT by dfwgator
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