Strictly Come Dancing Voting: The Maths - More or Less - BBC Radio 4

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Strictly Come Dancing bosses say the 2008 semi-final was the victim of "exceptional circumstances". BBC Radio 4's More or Less disagrees. The TV show's producers realised it was mathematically impossible for a public telephone vote to save Tom Chambers and Camilla Dallerup from the elimination dance-off after the judges' voting put the two other couples in tied first place. More or Less reporter and former computer programmer, Oliver Hawkins, runs a simulation to show the circumstances were really not that exceptional.

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  • it does actually make sense now

  • So the BBC has made a mistake and trying to use mathnmatics/ statistics to show that it can occur one in 8 times! Not good enough! This is just a question you find in a school exam, but the real question is, Why bother?

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  • I already understood this...And i'm only 14...This is ridiculously simple maths.... You just need to be able to count up to 5:P Lilia would struggle...she's only good at counting to 3:P

  • stupid

  • We know that for sure because they showed the actual number of viewers votes on Saturdays Strictly Final. Tom got most public votes which meant that he & Lisa were drawing.

  • i dont understand

  • this is really easy maths and now i understand it

  • Its not that complex. Look at the eventual results even if Tom recieved the most viewer votes (which he proabably did)

    Lisa 3 + 1 = 4

    Rachel 3 +2 = 5

    Tom 1 + 3 = 4

    The first scores a from the judges, the second the viewers. So you can see even if Tom got the most votes and therefore 3 points form the viewers, whichever of the other contestants recieved 2 points would have beaten him, leveing Tom incapable of escaping the dance off.

  • That made no sense to me whatsoever.

  • the truth: a thief who steals too much,too often,become too clumsy

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