[TonyWpi]

"they predicted that one of the two would be kicked off."

That's a cop-out! One of the two doesn't cut it. That's like saying either Bush or Gore won the election in 2000.

Last week they said Paris and they were wrong. I few weeks ago they said Ace and they were wrong.

The consolation is this:

Dial Idol: Ace
Went home: Bucky

Dail Idol: Ace
Went home: Ace

Dail Idol: Paris
Went home: Kellie

Dial Idol: Paris
Went home: (If the pattern holds, it should be Paris.)

[kevkrom]

Trusting DialIdol is lot like trusting exit polls. Most of the time, they're pretty close, but methodology and sampling errors make them useless for close races.

In this case, DialIdol (unavoidably) has a methodology error because they don't take text messaging into account. They also rely on their users being a representative sampling of the country, but it is a self-selecting group, and that laways introduces some form of bias.

[Wyatt's Torch]

o you are saying you don't believe in statistics and margin of error? I can't help you with that........