Error invalidates Nielsen numbersgreenspun.com : LUSENET : Grassroots Information Coordination Center (GICC) : One Thread |
April 11 — Most Americans know how to navigate
Daylight Savings Time. Nielsen Media Research,
on the other hand, hasn’t quite got it straight.
Though the research firm’s mainframe computer had
been adjusted for Daylight Savings, Nielsen
acknowledged on Wednesday that a coding error
caused it to revert to standard time after routine
maintenance on Sunday, corrupting the data it
collected from metered homes that dayI wonder if this was the April 1 bug?
-- spider (spider0@usa.net), April 12, 2001