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Overnights are in...
ON EDIT: A 27.8 million Household Rating means that 27.7% of HHolds in the US watched the Speech. That also means that 72.3% of Hholds in the US DID NOT watch the speech. Please keep that in mind.
Trumps First Address to Congress Draws Smaller Crowd Than Obama in Early Ratings
President Trump delivered his first speech to a joint session of Congress Tuesday evening, and while the pundit class may be heaping praise on the performance, Nielsens metered market overnight ratings indicate that he likely didnt draw as big a crowd as his predecessor.
Across seven networks ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC Trumps speech notched a 27.8 household rating in those early ratings. Across these same networks, President Obamas first address of a joint session of Congress on Feb. 24, 2009, drew an overnight household rating of 33.4, a difference of about 17%.
http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/tv-ratings-donald-trump-first-address-congress-obama-1201999788/
Cha
(297,772 posts)praise him some more.
underpants
(182,925 posts)Stuart G
(38,449 posts)JCinNYC
(366 posts)Cant figure out what I'm missing
How is 33.4 vs 27.8 a difference of about 17%?
"Believe me" - I'd love it to be higher - but not getting the math here.
titaniumsalute
(4,742 posts)27.8 divided by 33.4 is 0.832.
Take 100% and subtract 83.2% and you get about 17%.
thanks - I cant believe I missed that - jeez, maybe its time for ginkgo.
ProfessorGAC
(65,227 posts)I agree with you that they did it that way, but i should be the inverse, or:
33.4/27.8 which is 1.2014. So, the audience for BHO's speech was 20.14% higher, not 17%. It would be roughly 17 over 83, that way.
Like i said, you pegged how they came up with that number, but they're actually understating the difference.
titaniumsalute
(4,742 posts)Change of percentage.
If we are saying that BO had a TV rating of 33.4 and Dickhead had a 27.8, that is a fall of 16.8% or rounded to 17%.
If you want to imply lift it is the opposite. It's all about that base...
ProfessorGAC
(65,227 posts)A relative change is a mathematical concept
There's no excuse
If you hate math good for you
Republicans hate math too
titaniumsalute
(4,742 posts)I do math for a living in survey measurement and research. I'm correct on this one as is my math. And your post is highly uncalled for and rude at the same time.
ProfessorGAC
(65,227 posts)You're defending the indefensible. Their wording is wrong and you're defending it.
ismnotwasm
(42,014 posts)#Blackouttrump
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)He really is a loser.