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An "American Idol" viewer survey says it is Ashley Rodriguez and Haeley Vaughn heading home.Media Curves, a site that conducts communications research, polled 4,154 "American Idol" viewers on the Top 12 women. The survey is called "Idol Democracy," because each voter is only allowed to vote once.
The results have Crystal Bowersox and Lilly Scott finishing first and second with 16.3% and 12.7% of the vote, respectively. Ashley Rodriguez and Haeley Vaughn are the bottom two, receiving only 5.9% and 4.2% of the vote, respectively.
Spots 3-10 are as follows:
Katie Stevens, 11.1%
Siobhan Magnus, 8.8%
Janell Wheeler, 8.4%
Katelyn Epperly, 7.2%
Michelle Delamor, 6.9%
Lacey Brown, 6.5%
Didi Benami, 6.1%
Paige Miles, 6.0%
We aren't terribly surprised at the results. The one surprise is the placement of Didi Benami and Janell Wheeler -- we would've guessed they would be reversed in that list. We'll post the men's survey results as soon as they become available.
If you'd like to participate in this survey each week, registration is still available.
What do you think? Are Ashley and Haeley the right call? It'll be interesting to see if those two are actually the ones sent packing Thursday night (Feb. 25).
The "American Idol" results show airs Thursday, Feb. 25 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on FOX.
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What's the point of a poll for American Idol that only lets people vote once? :)
Haeley likely will stick around at least another week because her fan base likely includes thousands of young teens with unlimited texting plans.
Each of those teens is worth at least a thousand middle-aged geezers like me that aren't used to texting until our fingers bleed.
I like Haeley, by the way. I just think she should have waited a few more years. She's not quite ready for Idol.
I must agree with A.G.
While a poll in which viewers are allowed only one vote may be interesting, there is little to no reason to expect that the results will accurately predict the result of actual voting. Specifically, two issues should be apparent.
First and foremost, by restricting voting to one person, one vote, you eliminate the very real factor of multiple votes. Presumably, the differences in methodology will result in different results (unless this provides evidence contradicting the assumption that multiple votes skew the results).
Second, and less important, this is a poll based upon a self-selecting sample. Such polls have very little (if any) veracity. Random sampling is the only way to ensure that the sample group's results will be valid when applied to the larger population. At least, I think that's what I learned in my poli sci statistics course ....
How is Didi Benami ranked so low? She was definitely laid back but she has a beautiful voice and was one of the better ones imo. What's up with that?
Does American Idol not like Hispanics or what? 2 were voted off tonight & Joe Munoz was better than some that stayed. It just seems like anyone Hispanic has never won or got close. Orentials have never won either. It's just a show for Anglos or African Americans.This is so wrong in so many ways.
While I can understand the frustration, I'm not sure it's accurate to say that Hispanics NEVER do well on AI. David Archuletta (spelling?) came in second during Season 7. And some have pegged Andrew Garcia as a contestant to watch this season.
ok It's not american idol that hates hispanics it's americans I am right behind them all that Lets Keep going with it and kick all the hispanics out of the damn USA!!!!!!!!