Ok - now that I've got my Brooke question answered
I've got to share something with all you AI fans and see
what you think about this?? Do you think AI is pulling a fast one??
A week or so ago, I posted about dialidol.com - which has some program for redialing & voting & predicts who is going home. Anyway, they also tend to give a commentary about how things turned out after the results show. This is what has been on their site the last 2 weeks
DialIdol.com - Measuring the busy signal. Thursday April 24, 2008
Week w/6 (to 5) Idols Comments
As you know, there wasn't much of a prediction this week with David Cook being the only definitive prediction. Nevertheless, Carly, who sat at the bottom of DialIdol's predictions, was predicted to be in danger of being voted off - and she was, so DialIdol is back on track this week.
Or is it?
Again this week American Idol only decided to commit to a bottom two(/three) – never disclosing who actually got the fewest number of votes and instead stated “Carly you are leaving us tonight.” I personally think the 30 million viewers who watch every week deserve less ambiguity – but that's just me.
Sunday April 20, 2008
# I looked over the DialIdol call data from the last two weeks. Here are my observations.
* During the week with eight Idols (when Michael Johns got voted off) I found at least three different dialers who fit this criteria.
o They were dialing for Michael Johns and someone else. They busy percent for everyone else was was low but the busy percent for Michael Johns was 100%.
+ This probably was not accurate data and helped to inflate Michael Johns DialIdol score. This may account for the disparity between the results and the predictions.
* During the week with seven Idols (Kristy Lee Cook got voted off) I found nothing that stuck out as being odd. What I did find was data that more strongly suggested that of DialIdol's bottom four, Brooke had the lowest prediction and Kristy had the highest.
o This data, combined with the fact that Ryan Seacrest never specifically stated that Kristy Lee Cook got the fewest number of votes has me wondering if she really did?
+ Ryan Seacrest said this “After the nationwide vote the person staying with us is Brooke. Kristy Lee Cook leaves us tonight on American Idol.”
# So did she get the fewest votes? Or did the producers decide that keeping the real lowest vote getter made better financial sense? Or did Kristy Lee herself simply decide to leave?
* I am not trying to imply that Kristy Lee didn't get the fewest number of votes. What I am trying to do is point out that American Idol's vague results were even more vague this week. I for one would like someone from American Idol to go on record as stating that Kristy Lee Cook got the fewest votes last week and for this ambiguity to never happen again.