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05/03/2006 3:07 PM Alert 
Does anyone know anything much about the site Zabasearch.com? Last week its voting results were pretty accurate for the 4/25/06 show, and this week it has them in this order: Katharine, Chris, Taylor, Elliott, Paris. It shows this at www.zabasearch.com/ai_stats.php --I just wondered if anyone knew how they obtained the results or how accurate it is, since we know we can't rely on DialIdol too much. Last week this Zabasearch site also had Kat & Chris in the 1st & 2nd places-- but as we know, it did turn out to be accurate! I hope this week has turned out good for Katharine. I really do.
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05/03/2006 3:32 PM Alert 
Zabasearch has been right on for several weeks...not sure where data comes from but put your name in and they know alot about you...Dialidols cannot get data from test messages where I think Katerine is queen...Do you realize that the voting is not overseen by any public auditing company and can without Fox realizing it be skewed...they see Chris numbers being flooded and lets pick Pickler is not get many votes...They move lines (pots-they can handle 10 calls on each line-thats how call waiting works) to cappture more chris votes thinking they are capturing more total votes...Problem is now Pickler is getting more busy signals so Dialidols thins is getting more votes but in reality she has less oppportunity than chris...clear as mud but that could be a real problem
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05/03/2006 3:39 PM Alert 
zabasearch is a full of crap. They changed their ranking after the result show.  Last week, they had Kellie at number 2, then put her to the lowest.  Don't pay attention to this site.
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05/03/2006 3:48 PM Alert 
Positive they had a pie shaped chart last week and had Katherine with 28% share of the pie with Chris 2nd...They did have Paris with 09% and Pickler near 11% . Fould site through a post on this site and was impressed when they called it right.
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05/03/2006 4:08 PM Alert 

^^well that was AFTER the result show.  I want to be positive too, but I don't want to set myself for the disappointment.  Last week, they actually had Chris in the bottom 3, and Kellie was in the top2 before the show.  Kellie was eliminated, so they switched Chris to Kellie's position.  I think everyone on IDF knows about this site well.

 

 
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05/03/2006 4:23 PM Alert 
Yup, they were totally wrong last week- until AFTER the results show. Last week I posted their predictions, then busted them when they changed the predictions later to reflect the actual outcome. It seems as though they just make up their predictions. Dialidol is much better- they use a valid means of prediction, and have a good track record. They (dialidol) don't take text votes into account however, so the more people text, the less accurate they will be.
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05/03/2006 4:28 PM Alert 
i dont know anything about this site
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05/03/2006 6:34 PM Alert 
i don't know about that site, but they're all always wrong, like dialidol...
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05/03/2006 7:07 PM Alert 
Actually, I think the two sites are just looking at the same information, just a bit differently though.

Zaba is looking at their estimates of vote totals, while the figures on DialIdol are based upon busy signals. If you go to DialIdol though, and then pull the drop down menu it gives you a choice to look at raw data. When you see the raw data, you will find that Kat also has the most votes. It's just that from their perspective, that the measurement of busy signals are more important. I guess there are just such a huge number of votes for Idol that everyone has a different theory about what you need to look for to get an appropriate estimate.
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05/03/2006 8:58 PM Alert 
zabasearch got it right again..
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