I have noticed that for the last few weeks the xfactor tracker has Little Mix last until end of wk / wkend when they rise. Could this be because they are little mix supporters who want to gather votes for LM by making us think they are not safe.... Then rectifying the tracker in time so that they don't get the order wrong?

Just a thought....

....no.

Just think it is weird that they keep putting LM very low in the ranking early in week. It is not like LM are more popular Friday then earlier in week. How can they go from top to bottom just like that? Especially earlier weeks when more contestants. Seems like too much of a fluctuation.

it wasnt correct it guessed that marcus would go

I have to agree with you that it doesnt add up, they have had LM there since sunday yet on any other poll , DS included they have over 50% of the votes (well they did last I looked) so it just doesnt make sense. not sure I agree with the theory though.

I think you may be onto something...

I'm telling you it's cause most of their fans are in school during the week, they probably go up on the tracker in the evening

Then surely they would put Little Mix last during the voting, since people would be a lot more likely to vote in a panic at seeing their favourite last at that point than through the week?

X Factor tracker has been pretty accurate - it got Marcus wrong but it did have misha down there too and we don't know how close the vote was yet....

As for Little Mix, Im guessing that just has to do with when the majority of people vote. Earlier there have not been so many votes cast.

The X factor tracker does not have any bias, positive or negative towards any of the contestants.

It uses langauge and data anaylsis to predict who is the least popular contestant each week, based on what people are saying about them. Aside from the occasions when the classifier is re-trained, any significant shifts in popularity are entirely due to the public, as the programmes works in real time.

If people are looking at the tracker and voting for who is at the bottom this is no different from people looking at betting odds. The results could not be published retrospectively because this would leave the project prone to vast accusations of innacuracy or twisting results.

It is just a resource and an experiment, like many others, and people can use it as they wish.

It would be much quicker to say 'it's bollocks!'.