CBS Popularity Poll
TV ClubHouse: ARCHIVES: Big Brother USA 2003 General Discussions Part 1:
CBS Popularity Poll
Philamom | Thursday, August 21, 2003 - 05:02 am     YES!!! I hope this is the beginning of a big decline for Ali. I e-mailed CBS, ridiculing them for not even being able to control a simple popularity poll. Maybe they looked into it??? |
Oscrapit | Thursday, August 21, 2003 - 05:26 am     Another check of the popularity poll shows Alison at 7.3. Dang! |
Amchess | Thursday, August 21, 2003 - 05:38 am     Wouldn't it be better to vote for everyone else but not vote for Ali? That way she is getting zero votes. Those 1 votes can add up (slowly)! |
Jagger | Thursday, August 21, 2003 - 06:00 am     I guess the thousands of votes I have given her have been paying off. J/K I have no faith in the CBS poll, especially after last year when Jason was way up there and in the last week or two Lisa suddenly burst ahead of everyone in the polls. I decided at that time the polls were rigged. |
Kaili | Thursday, August 21, 2003 - 06:02 am     Amchess- i've only been awake for 10 minutes and my coffee is still too hot to even sip, so I apologize if I misinterpreted what you just said. It wouldn't be better to vote for everyone else but Ali- thescores they get are an average based on the score people give them. If you vote for everyone but Ali, you'll have no impact on her score...but if you vote her as a 1 it brings down her average. Watch... Imagine she has 10 votes: 7 8 7 9 10 6 7 9 6 6 With those votes her average would be: 7.5 Now, say 10 more people vote and all vote her a 1 to lower her average, that increases the number of votes to 20, but the total before dividing for the average to only 85. This time, dividing by 20, her average comes down to 4.25- big drop. Say those 10 people were all votes for a score of 10 (as the voting thing may be giving her). That would bring the total to 175. Divided by 20...Alison's new score would be 8.75. Finally, say there are 30 votes- the original 10 valid ones, the 10 voting 1 who are desperately trying to lower her rating, and the 10 fake votes of ten. Her number total would be 185, this time divided by 30. Score: 6.166666666 (and I admit I giggled when I saw all the 6's in an Ali example. Guess she's really the devil) So it can make a difference, but it had to be done enough to equalize it (or actually bring it down as in my original example she was a 7.5). Make sense? I'm starting to wake up a little bit now.  |
Philamom | Thursday, August 21, 2003 - 06:06 am     LOL, thanks for the math lesson, Kaili... actually, you did a very good job of explaining how the polls work. |
Kaili | Thursday, August 21, 2003 - 06:48 am     Heehee- thanks, Philamom. |
Gina8642 | Thursday, August 21, 2003 - 08:50 am     Maybe Donnie really DOES love her and has started up a bunch of Vote Botts on her behalf. LOL |
Closetfan | Thursday, August 21, 2003 - 12:21 pm     Before I went to bed last night, Ali's score was down to 6.6 from 8.3 I was thrilled. Now it's at 7.5. Thanks to everyone giving her 1's to counteract the vote botts!! |
Funnyfarm | Friday, August 22, 2003 - 09:48 am     CBS has done some work on their poll results. Have great recaps week by week. It's interesting to note that Justin has been favored to win for some time. Ali is back to 6.6. I have hope they have found and stopped the corrupted voting, but maybe not. I too continue to give her 1's. They should put it back down to the 3.6 where she belongs, or even below! |
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