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Friday, February 23, 2007

DialIdol

If you are an American Idol fan, I have a web page you need to add to your bookmarks list: DialIdol's prediction page.  Each week,

DialIdol measures the busy signal to determine which Idols are getting the most votes ... DialIdol assumes that because one Idols phone line is busier than another's that they are getting more votes. As a result we predict who will be voted off every week.

The site is somewhere between 65% and 87% accurate, which is better than chance.  I first started visiting DialIdol last season, and the site correctly predicted the bottom vote getter in six of the final seven weeks.

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