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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
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Originally Posted by Charbax
There are ways to measure popularity on the Internet which are pretty much infallible. They are in fact much more precise than whatever audience measurements Radio, TV, Newspapers, Libraries and Museums have been using for decades. In fact, computer and Internet based statistics can be 10s of thousands of times more precise and more representative of the real actual audiences.
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"Tens of thousands?" Got any real statistics to back that up, or did you pull that number out of thin air? |
Previous era TV, Radio, Newspaper, Libraries and Museum usage statistics are based on supposedly representative samples of usually hundreds or max about a thousand people. And using that supposedly representative sample of the people as ground for the whole redistribution of the centralized funds.
Internet statistics counts usage from every single user. Thus Internet statistics uses representativity only in cases where for example newly registered non verified users have activity that one can use verified old users to represent them using some algorithms. But mostly, on the Internet, you basically know exactly the usage statistics of every single registered verified user. Thus you get tens of millions of very precise measurements versus a thousand measurements in the old models.