View Poll Results: Which of these describes you and your DVR situation?

I watch 'Arrested Development' AND I have a DVR

45.83%

I watch 'Arrested Development' but do not have a DVR

5.83%

I have a DVR but do not watch 'Arrested Development'

39.17%

I don't have a DVR, nor do I watch 'Arrested Development'

9.17%

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12-29-05, 03:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Jeremy517

If you notice, of those that don't watch AD, 80% have DVRs. Across the whole poll, 84% of respondants have DVRs, a percentage that is probably close to 10x that of the nationwide percentage.

The sample size is too small for that DVR percentage, 80% vs 84%, between watchers and nonwatchers to have any statistical significance. If DVR owners are being excluded from the numbers for all shows, then all numbers are a little low. Total viewership would increase, but share might or might not. We'd need a bigger sample to tell, but this says DVDTalk watchers and nonwatchers own DVRs in essentially identical numbers (which says next to nothing about the general public, as our DVR ownership is 10X the general publics)

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12-29-05, 04:23 PM

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Originally Posted by OldDude

The sample size is too small for that DVR percentage, 80% vs 84%, between watchers and nonwatchers to have any statistical significance.

I wasn't comparing the 80 percent to the 84 percent, but rather just showing that both sides have a ridiciously high percentage of DVR users. The real comparison that I was making was comparing the percentage of TVTalkers with DVRs to the nationwide percentage of DVRs.

Using DVR users might help ADs ratings, but this poll won't show (and won't not show) that whether it does or not. He was trying to show significance where there is none.