Posted on 05/08/2006 4:22:13 AM PDT by silent_jonny
LOL! I suppose it's sweet her mom and dad love her so much, but they really are over the top. I shudder to think that we might be getting all three if she wins. Ugh!
Well it showed both mayors and the governor. Can you believe that all 3 wanted to be in the spotlight with Taylor? MUST be an election year! :)
BTW, what did you think of the mayor's dancing? LOL
Well let's just say if I were his opponent I would definately make some campaign commercials with the footage. Not only can he not govern, but he can't dance either. You know he'd lose votes with that! :)
Did he? Dang it. I miss a lot of what's going on because I'm posting on the thread during the show. I wish I'd seen that.
As it should be. He has been the horse of this show and deserves great props.
I am not bitter about Elliott as it is my belief that he should be working with Quincy Jones, not Simon Fuller and Clive.
Yes he is..I would so love to see his mid life tour. I will always love Rush but Glenn is hard for me to miss. He is just so funny.
Naaaahhhh. Elliott's people go to Taylor in droves.
AND whip out the harmonica. :)
You should tape or tivo the show and re-watch it after the thread. That way you won't miss anything good.
I'm saving that quote too :)
I always tape a show as I'm watching it just for that reason. Can't wait to get tivo though. I'm still antiquated.
That is a good quote. Nicely said. :)
On Idol? No, only Elliot's name was revealed. But I have to believe Taylor is in first place.
LOL!
Post from the Graycharles.com website
***A little applied math for what just happened***
50 million votes
Assume the order went Taylor, Kat, Elliott
33.68% of 50 million = 16.84 million (Taylor)
33.26% of 50 million = 16.63 million (Kat)
33.06% of 50 million = 16.53 million (Elliott)
Assume 10% of each contestants votes come from texting. That leaves landline voting as follows:
15.156 million (Taylor)
14.967 million (Kat)
14.877 million (Elliott)
Now, take the DialIdol busy signal percentages and compute the total number of phone calls actually made:
80% busy (Taylor)
70% busy (Kat)
70% busy (Elliott)
TOTAL LANDLINE PHONE CALLS FOR EACH CONTESTANT
75.78 million (Taylor)
49.89 million (Kat)
49.59 million (Elliott)
TOTAL PHONE CALLS AND TEXT MESSAGES ACTUALLY CAST
180.26 million
TOTAL COUNTED
50 million
Bottom line: by artificially choking the phone lines they can get ANY vote total they want (and by extension any outcome they want).
For those who still care to vote next week...
I postulate that the high call volumes basically overload the AI phone system in terms of absolute calls going through. This means that after a certain point, the three contestants’ vote totals all reach the max per phone line…hence the virtual tie.
A Taylor fan says :
LOL, I couldn't resist, your post was perfect for that. :)
There is a rather deep mathematical discussion at another AI board, discussing the probabilities of the vote ending up that close, and how it wasn't really that close. I forgot everything I learned in quantum physics class, but the basic premise is that the phone lines were being used to almost maximum capacity for all 3 contestants, thus there being a limit to how many actual votes were tabulated. It would explain why the busy signal percentage showed a much bigger lead for Taylor without the actual vote tally following suit. Does that make any sense?
Well.. I am pretty disapointed I really wanted Elliot to win...got to this thread too early. Here in Arizona they are just about to make the announcement. I hope that Elliot will go far.
That shot of Daddy McPhee was from last night after his daughter sang Over the Rainbow, not when Elliot was eliminated.
Surely you weren't attempting to pass it off as such.
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