Have you ever been chosen as a nielsen faminly?

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I have been twice in the past 5 years!! But I don't personally know of a single other person who has even once!

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  • wreckd
    12 years ago | pl

    I've never even heard of that!

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  • Faceless
    12 years ago | pl

    I wouldnt trust the government. Not even to monitor stupid t.v. ratings.

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    • jerseydevil
      12 years ago | pl

      Nielsen is not a government agency. It's a private company paid by the networks and advertisers for the information that they collect.

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  • dappled
    12 years ago | pl

    My family was, when I was about 10. It was the English equivalent of the Nielsen thing and it didn't include a box to put on the TV (which I think you have). Ours was just like a really blandly printed TV guide listing with a tickbox next to each programme. We did it for a week then someone came to the door and took the sheet away again.

    When I talked about it at school, no-one believed me because it had never happened to them.

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      12 years ago | pl

      They gave me books to keep a log of what we watched on each TV in my house and when the week was up I just dropped them in the mail. They also paid me $30 cash which was sweet! The previous time it was only $15!

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  • Legion
    12 years ago | pl

    My family did it for a week, except instead of tv, it was internet usage. we downloaded a program that monitered where we went online. it started messing with our computer, so we cancelled it.

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    • thepickler
      11 years ago | pl

      Actually that sounds like a really bad idea. I'd never voluntarily install software that monitored my Internet activity. You cannot be completely sure what information they collect or how they use it.

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  • 4392Moron
    12 years ago | pl

    When I was 8 my family was chosen. The format was excatlly like "Dappled's". I am Canadian and we also received a plain TV Guide set-up and also put a tick box by our chosen programmes.

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  • jerseydevil
    12 years ago | pl

    My family has been a Nielsen family since March 2010.

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