Freeview refers to a television service these days:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeview_(UK)
But maybe that is what they are doing. The test was on whether the viewer recognized the string as a word. The comparison at the end was probably just what can be found in the latest revision of the unabridged Oxford English Dictionary. They might be using the results to assemble a word corpus that could be used in other research applications. If that's the case, bravo for not requiring a bunch of research assistants to endlessly pore over word lists.