DialIdol Adjusts Lil Rounds' Standings in This Week's Rankings

Posted by againstallodds on April 22nd, 2009 at 7:45 AM
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The folks over at DialIdol predict who might go home each week based on busy signals for each contestant. A busy signal means a large number of people are calling, thus they are probably receiving more votes than others. This week some errors happened with Lil's voting, catapulting her into the #1 spot on DialIdol. But some adjustments were made due to the fact that some of Lil's voters seemed to get an incredibly high number of busy signals that wouldn't make much sense. That led to a revised chart (pictured: left) that now has Lil in the second position. Lil is still in danger of course due to margin of error, but we wanted to let you know that an adjustment had been made. Cross your fingers for Lil!

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Moxie
Posted: April 22, 2009 - 8:46am
Joined: 10 May 2008

She's still showing up in first on DialIdol for me...not that it matters, as everyone is in danger of going home this week. Gotta love margin of error.

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jennyislove
Posted: April 22, 2009 - 8:57am
Joined: 16 Apr 2008

I wonder how many votes Ryan is going to announce at the beginning of the show...

40 million?

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voicecracker
Posted: April 22, 2009 - 9:18am
Joined: 16 Apr 2008

ALL contestants predicted to be in the bottom 3. Nice. Dial Idol has officially given up. At least they can now guarantee 100% accuracy.

SoulPatrol
Posted: April 22, 2009 - 9:59am
Joined: 22 May 2006

I think Dial Idol has screwed the pooch........Matt & Lil are probably going home!

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Analog_Kid
Posted: April 22, 2009 - 10:04am
Joined: 16 Apr 2008

Lil is listed in first and Allison in last, so if Lil goes and Allison stays, DI might as well close up shop since it will have been exposed as completely meaningless. Of course, we all know it always has been since the producers do whatever they want (within reason). But this would be so beyond the pale that even the most ardent kool-aid drinkers should be able to see what a sham it is.

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dismembertat
Posted: April 22, 2009 - 11:04am
Joined: 05 Mar 2009

Dial Idol has become completely irrelevant this year. I suspect that AI added alot more phone lines, making the calculations based on the"busy" signal completely useless. Not to mention they have no measure of how to gauge text messages. A third grader could predict with more accuracy they what we have seen out of DI this year.

highlander330
Posted: April 22, 2009 - 11:19am
Joined: 22 Apr 2009

Dial idol hasn't given up, but there is no way that they can track text votes. But what if TPTB intentionally turned off lil's phones so that they would get a busy signal.

brianb27
Posted: April 22, 2009 - 11:26am
Joined: 22 Apr 2009

What I want to know is if they've made it so that they can't be wrong by predicting anyone could be as low as 6th, how is it they only have a 97% accuracy rate? LOL

You're right folks, dialidol predictions are absolutely worthless...

Analog_Kid
Posted: April 22, 2009 - 11:41am
Joined: 16 Apr 2008

highlander330, there's no need to even do that. All they have to do is change Lil's vote totals after the fact. Nobody would be the wiser. It seems much easier to get away with that than to physically affect the phone lines.

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chikkijaxun
Posted: April 22, 2009 - 12:11pm
Joined: 26 Feb 2009

I betcha somehow our girl will end up in the bottom three.

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