As part of that giant tab, the media company gets an exceptional opportunity to study viewers' behavior.
According to the study viewers of the show have a median household income of $65,000 per year.
To study viewers' ability to extract useful information from the local motion contained in point-light displays, one can spatially scramble the positions of the individual markers.
"To have confronted the audience" about racism "would have been commercial suicide," says Justin Lewis, who has studied viewer responses to the program (164).
Netflix recently studied viewers that watched an entire series in one month and found that 50% of them finished an entire season within a week.
Through these case studies, viewers can learn the warning signals that often precede genocide, and see the possibilities for intervention and prevention.
She is a senior director of research at MTV in Manhattan, where she studies viewers among the millennial generation to help shape the network's programming.
Across all of these studies, viewers accepted hyper-realistic masks as real faces.
Google has also applied deep learning to language processing and to provide better video recommendations on YouTube, because it studies viewers' habits and preferences when they stream content.
Williams' association with "NBC Nightly News" was so strong, NBC News President Deborah Turness once said that in research studies, viewers used the word "he" when talking about the broadcast.
