Episode
Horizon: Suggers, Fruggers and Data-Muggers
Overview
Horizon investigates how market research, opinion polls, TV ratings, and consumer surveys have got it disastrously wrong. Commercial decisions depend increasingly on this information, but just how good is that information?
Details
- Series
- Horizon
- Season
- Season 30
- Episode
- Episode 7
- Air date
- 1993-02-15
- Runtime
- 60 min
Episode context
Suggers, Fruggers and Data-Muggers is Episode 7 in 1993 of Horizon. It aired on 1993-02-15. The runtime is 60 min.
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