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Nielsen ratings relied on manual paper diaries for decades
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The system that decided the fate of billion-dollar networks used to depend on sheer human honesty. Viewers were literally mailed physical paper logs and asked to write down what they watched. Naturally, people lied constantly to seem smarter, leading to wildly inaccurate data that drove decades of television programming.
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