Thursday, April 19, 2007

What Do People REALLY Think of Sanjaya

The Freakonomics Blog had a really interesting post today about the Sanjaya phenomenon...

Nielsen BuzzMetrics wanted to know what people really think when they think about Sanjaya, the onetime faux-hawked American Idol contestant. So here, according to Max Kalehoff, is what they did: “We took a sample of all the blog posts about American Idol over a week, then focused on keyword sanjaya, then mapped out all the most closely associated words and phrases, based on proximity, frequency, and contextual relevance.”

Here’s what the Sanjaya mind-map looks like:

I admit, Ryan and I voted for him...he made the show more interesting. What do you think about Sanjaya?

[ht: Mindy]

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