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Alisons
Member
01-10-2003
| Thursday, April 21, 2005 - 8:21 am
Awhile back we were talking about online surveys and why some people did better than they seem to do in real life. I found this writeup on MSNBC.com that addresses online surveys, thought it might be of interest to some: ONLINE SURVEYS In contrast, MSNBC's online surveys (Live Votes) may reflect the views of far more individuals, but they are not necessarily representative of the general population. To begin with, the people who respond choose to do so — they are not randomly selected and asked to participate, but instead make the choice to read a story about a certain topic and then vote on a related question. There is thus no guarantee that the votes would reflect anything close to a statistical sample, even of MSNBC.com users: The participants in a Sports Live Vote and a Politics Live Vote may overlap, but each group is likely to be dominated by people with an interest in each particular area. In addition, while MSNBC.com’s Live Votes are designed to allow only one vote per user, someone who wants to vote more than once could simply use another computer or another Internet account. According to Nielsen//NetRatings, nearly 75 percent or 204.3 million Americans had access to the Internet from home in early 2004. In contrast, more than 90 percent of Americans live in homes with a telephone. This does not mean that Internet polling cannot be scientific. Harris Interactive, for example, has set up a system with checks and balances that allow it to use the Internet to obtain survey results comparable with more traditional methods. But MSNBC’s Live Votes are not intended to be a scientific sample of national opinion. Instead, they are part of the same interactive dialogue that takes place in our online chat sessions: a way to share your views on the news with MSNBC writers and editors and with your fellow users. Let us know what you think.
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Seamonkey
Member
09-07-2000
| Sunday, April 24, 2005 - 2:03 pm
Just had to put this in a non-show night thread.. http://p085.ezboard.com/fsurvivorsucksfrm28.showMessageRange?topicID=8436.topic&start=21&stop=40
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Lexie_girl
Member
07-30-2004
| Sunday, April 24, 2005 - 2:34 pm
Sea!!! That was absolutely hysterical - I almost busted a gut laughing when I got to "Paula." Thank you for sharing that with us.
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Seamonkey
Member
09-07-2000
| Sunday, April 24, 2005 - 3:48 pm
Ketchuplover and Mak have to take the credit for finding that.. 
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Watching2
Member
07-07-2001
| Sunday, April 24, 2005 - 3:54 pm
ROFL - That was a riot!
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Sunday, April 24, 2005 - 5:18 pm
That's a scream! LOL
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Rvon
Member
12-11-2003
| Sunday, April 24, 2005 - 5:52 pm
This was excellent! Thanks for sending, Sea.
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Monday, April 25, 2005 - 3:17 am
CNN just reported that the ABC show about IDOL will not only reveal that Paula had an affair with Corey, but she had an agreement to help fund his career to the tune of two million. Tom O'Neill also said the show would make accusations about Simon having flings with some of the female contestants. Randy - no dirt on him. Apparently The show will make allegations as well that American Idol is fixed to the extent that the judges influence and decide who they want to win. Big surprise there.
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Watching2
Member
07-07-2001
| Monday, April 25, 2005 - 6:08 am
I also heard a snippet on one of the ABC or CNN news briefs that did indeed mention a "fix" when it comes to Ruben and Clay. OH MY! Say it isn't so.. we know how passionate people still are about that one! 
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Sadiesmom
Member
03-13-2002
| Monday, April 25, 2005 - 6:47 am
I knew that Simon (Cowell) had designs on Christine Christian, but that she was engaged and not interested. Simon Fuller - no idea, although Nygel Lythgow's nephew was engaged to Kim Locke for a while.
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Lexie_girl
Member
07-30-2004
| Monday, April 25, 2005 - 11:21 am
WHAT!!??!! The vote was fixed between Ruben and Clay??? GRRRRRRRR......... Actually, don't you remember how in the days following the final episode of AI2, that AI kept changing the "final figure" of the numbers of the votes that were cast and the percentage of difference between the votes? Every night for 3-4 days on Entertainment Tonight they had a different figure of the number of votes cast for Ruben and Clay.
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Monday, April 25, 2005 - 11:40 am
Oh heavens. Carts and horses. I think we'd do well to wait until ABC finishes its report and check the quality of their evidence. We know literally nothing now--just conjecture.
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Monday, April 25, 2005 - 11:51 am
But its fun to speculate. But, no way that Clay beat Ruben. The velvet teddybear won that one fair and square, it was every other competition that was rigged.
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Monday, April 25, 2005 - 11:55 am
With the news hitting all the wires today about Constantine's band getting a record deal, it was covered on CNN, Fox, and others, I think Constantine could be gone this week. People may feel that Constantine got his record deal and its someone elses chance. Constantine may have made a bad move on this one. According to his band's statement Constantine only did American Idol for the band so everything is cool.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Monday, April 25, 2005 - 12:04 pm
It was rigged, I tell ya...it was rigged!!!!!! LOL Maris, I think you might be right about Constantine.
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Alisons
Member
01-10-2003
| Monday, April 25, 2005 - 12:38 pm
I am a big Constantine fan and that ex-band of his makes me so mad I want to froth at the mouth! They make a big deal about being "artists" and are too "pure" to have anything to do with AI but then they can't wait to make a buck and in the process hurt Constantine's chances. Constantine can't respond to their a**hole comments because contestants can't talk to the media, but he has said repeatedly that he is in it to win. He signed over the rights to that CD before he got into AI so this is not "his move".
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Monday, April 25, 2005 - 12:40 pm
Well Alisons according to his band, it is all about the band. He signed over the rights so that AI would not own the band, according to them. I am just saying.........
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Jimmer
Member
08-30-2000
| Monday, April 25, 2005 - 12:49 pm
Well it won't affect my voting for him. 
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Monday, April 25, 2005 - 12:56 pm
Mine either Jimmer 
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Babyboo
Member
06-16-2003
| Monday, April 25, 2005 - 12:58 pm
Maris, i don't agree that Ruben won fair and square atall, never have believed it, record sales show who really won that one, imho.
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Monday, April 25, 2005 - 1:02 pm
yeah but who gets to go on all the award shows? Who got a show on dateline? Ruuuuuuuuuben
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Alisons
Member
01-10-2003
| Monday, April 25, 2005 - 1:06 pm
Maris, I hear you, I know that one of those little #####s said that Constantine was only in it "for them" on E! News Daily. But I could equally well go on there and say he is only in it for me, that does not make it true. Hopefully they will let him make some kind of statement on Tuesday to put that bs to rest.
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Babyboo
Member
06-16-2003
| Monday, April 25, 2005 - 1:12 pm
Seems to me that i have seen Clay more than i have seen ruben on t.v shows...and with that said i'm not going to say anymore because the mods won't like it.
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Alisons
Member
01-10-2003
| Monday, April 25, 2005 - 1:28 pm
An AI expose actually could hurt any and all of our favorites from current and past shows.
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Monday, April 25, 2005 - 1:34 pm
Actually, I've seen Ruben on more and more of a variety of shows than I've seen Clay on ...
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