Flemington, NJ, March 3, 2010 – A new national study conducted among 3,804 American Idol viewers revealed that viewers selected Lee Dewyze as the contestant who should advance to the next round of the competition based on his performance last night.
The study was conducted during March 2-3, by HCD Research using its mediacurves.com website, to obtain American Idol viewers’ perceptions of which male contestants should be eliminated on Thursday’s results show. HCD Research is conducting a series of studies among a nationally representative sample of Americans, which parallel American Idol voting to determine the weekly winners based on a democratic, “one person, one vote” methodology.
The studies are being conducted in response to the controversy over the validity of the voting process that is currently used to select the weekly winners. The study results are compared to the actual results of the show each week. To view detailed results visit: www.mediacurves.com/americanidol/idoldemocracy
Lee Dewyze received 16.5% of the votes, indicating that viewers believe he should advance to the next round of the competition based on his performance. The contestants with the lowest percentage of votes were Jermaine Sellers, with 2.9% and Todrick Hall, with 4.3% of the votes. Based on the results of the study, Sellers and Hall are the two male contestants who should be eliminated on Thursday’s show.
Among the findings:
Respondents were asked to pick the one contestant that they thought should advance to the next round of the competition:
|
Contestant |
% that voted for contestant to move on |
|
Lee Dewyze |
16.5% |
|
Casey James |
16.4% |
|
Michael Lynche |
14.5% |
|
Alex Lambert |
13.6% |
|
Tim Urban |
11.5% |
|
Andrew Garcia |
7.9% |
|
John Park |
6.2% |
|
Aaron Kelly |
6.1% |
|
Todrick Hall |
4.3% |
|
Jermaine Sellers |
2.9% |
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HCD Research is a marketing and communications research company headquartered in Flemington, NJ. The company's services include traditional and web-based research. For additional information on HCD Research, access the company’s web site at www.hcdi.net or call HCD Research at 908-788-9393. MediaCurves.com® (www.mediacurves.com) is a media measurement website that provides the media and general public with a venue to view Americans’ perceptions of popular and controversial media events and advertisements.
I'm not saying that what you're doing is a total waste of time and a statistical fallacy, but what you're doing is a total waste of time and a statistical fallacy.
Plus, you're spamming entertainment sites with your specious findings...
-Daniel
Keep it up Media curves!!
Your fan,
Joyce
If intensity of support were the norm in politics, Ron Paul may have run against Barack Obama rather than John McCain.
Like polling done in presidential elections we take a statistically valid sample. Gallup predicts the votes of 110 Million people with a sample of 1100.
We are measuring the likely preference of the majority of AI viewers based on a majority rules rather than a frequency of voting model.
In any case , thanks for your interest!
If intensity of support were the norm in politics, Ron Paul may have run against Barack Obama rather than John McCain.
Like polling done in presidential elections we take a statistically valid sample. Gallup predicts the votes of 110 Million people with a sample of 1100.
We are measuring the likely preference of the majority of AI viewers based on a majority rules rather than a frequency of voting model.
In any case , thanks for your interest!
Additionally, with regards to your remarks that our results are similar to last weeks findings: maybe our results from last week and this week are similar because our study has strong test-retest reliability, and the contestant's performance levels remained fairly consistent between weeks.
Thanks again for your interest in our research.
Ben
I will continue to vote however because I'm interested in seeing who is in the top spot every week and to see who is always going to be in the bottom. =]