Dancing with the Stars 2010

WolvEagle · Nov 24, 2010

Oggiedoggie said:

They kept the cash cow for as long as they could, but ultimately let the gazelle win?
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Absolutely. It boosted the ratings on what's already the most popular show on TV.

Mizzougrad96 · Nov 24, 2010

I don't think anyone at ABC had any inkling that Bristol would make it longer than 3-4 weeks. I don't want to say she boosted ratings, but the controversy had CBS, Fox and NBC covering a finale that would be shown on a competing network. That doesn't happen too often.

heyabbott · Nov 24, 2010

I don't watch DWTS and can't stand Palin, but I took a peek last night. The person who says she's Jennifer Gray doesn't look a thing like the Jennifer Gray from Dirty Dancing.

BTW I love me some Bristol. sex, drinks, smokes weed, slight eating disorder, obviously has daddy issues.

Piotr Rasputin · Nov 24, 2010

votefortheworst.com

Mizzougrad96 · Nov 25, 2010

I had forgotten about that site, probably because I stopped watching Idol.

HC · Nov 25, 2010

Thought y'all might enjoy this: Whoever said the revolution would not be televised was wrong. It’s on TV, on Dancing With the Stars, of all things.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/television/john-doyle/the-palins-and-the-politics-of-dancing/article1809093/

YankeeFan · Nov 25, 2010

heyabbott said:

BTW I love me some Bristol. sex, drinks, smokes weed, slight eating disorder, obviously has daddy issues.
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Sounds exactly like the kind of girl I usually date.

Let me tell you, it's a wild ride. I'm holding on very tightly right now.

YankeeFan · Nov 26, 2010

Nate Silver, extending his brand:

The “Dancing With the Stars” scoring system ostensibly gives equal weight to the opinions of the three-judge panel — all of whom have a lifetime of experience as professional dancers or choreographers — and those of the home audience. But the judges and the audience rely on completely different methods to rate the contestants, and they are not especially compatible.

The judges assign each team a rating from 1 to 10; the scores from the three judges are then combined. Late in the season, each couple will compete multiple times on the same program; the judges’ scores for each dance are combined as well.

But in practice the judges do not use the full 10-point scale. Only 9 percent of the judges’ scores this season were below 6, and just 2 percent were below 4. Perfect 10’s are also extremely rare early in the season — just two were assigned in the first six episodes of the show — although they become much more common late in the year, as all contestants seem to benefit from a sort of grade inflation.

The home audience votes in a completely different way. They do not assign scores at all: instead, they simply pick which couple they like best. One person, one vote. (At least in theory: concerns have been raised about some fans stuffing the ballot box by signing up for multiple online accounts with fake e-mail addresses.)

Mathematically, this is the equivalent of the audience assigning their favorite couple a perfect 10, and every other couple a 0. This gives the audience much more power over the show’s outcome than the judges. Suppose, for instance, that late in the season, when there are five couples left, four of the five teams receive 9’s across the board from the judges, and the final couple instead receives straight 7’s. In terms of the way the judges normally vote, that is a rather clear verdict: the low-scoring couple has had an inferior performance, and should be eliminated.

But in reality the low-scoring team would need to receive only 24 percent of the votes from the home audience — just barely better than the 20 percent they would get if the audience voted completely at random — to be guaranteed passage into the next round. It doesn’t matter if 24 percent of the audience thought they were the best-performing couple — and the other 76 percent thought they were the worst one! They would still advance to the next episode.

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/26/palin-debate-aside-does-dancing-need-electoral-reform/?hp
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