I have a theory on why a great performer like Ricki-Lee was eliminated from Australian Idol last night. This may not stand up under scrutiny, but since neither of us have the statistics to argue with me, you don't get much room to move. Sunday night's performance show was, apparently, the highest-ranking Oz Idol performance show ever. That means new viewers, some of whom would have voted. Some of those would have been making mistakes, being unfamiliar with the voting process. I cite Big Brother as an example, where we vote against contestants, as opposed to Idol where we vote for them. Given a large enough audience (tick) confused in this way (maybe) we could easily see the best performers eliminated. Also backing up my theory is the way two of the stand-out performers from Sunday were in the bottom three in terms of votes.
Mokalus of Borg
PS - This has been a mob psychology lecture from M-o-B Productions.
PPS - Perhaps we need some kind of RFC standard for reality TV voting procedures.
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