American Idol and crowdsourcing: Can 100 million votes come up with the wrong winner?
TV show American Idol came to a conclusion tonight with an upset result. (Spoiler alert) Adam Lambert, the screaming rocker whose voice range had no limit, went down in defeat to the folksy but cute Kris Allen. In my house, jaws fell open. Entertainment Weekly was so sure that Lambert was going to win that they put him on the cover last week.
Clearly the voting system doesn’t work (indeed, how can I possibly have voted… Continue Reading