A Picture Of Emotion

Numbers are my friends, and today I have made over 300 of them in the form of responses to the Special Bets survey on your feelings about the remaining housemates. You are an emotional bunch. 80% of you are in love (some with more than one person), whilst a similar proportion are in, erm, hate.


Some of the results will be obvious, some not so, but I believe I can now present to you pictures which in a snapshot capture where the loyalty and the loathing lies.

Given we are still in the eviction stages, lets start with the hate angle. The graphic below has eleven "spokes", each ending with the name of a housemate. Along those spokes is charted the percentage of respondents with a particular emotion for that housemate, starting with the most negative: hate. Other less negative emotions ranging from dislike to love also appear along the spokes, however in order for them to show up, they have to travel further along the spoke than the previous more negative emotions. The colour of the graphic closest to the housemates name indicates the overriding emotion felt towards them according to the poll.

They say a picture paints a thousand words, and on that basis there's not enough room on this blog to run through the multitude of inferences that can be drawn from the above. However, to name just a couple that I find interesting, it would appear that Susie is not drawing the sort of fire that I alluded to last week, and that based on the above, Richard fans could out-muscle Aisleynes.

"Where is the love?" sang Roberta Flack in 1972, and thirty four years on we asked the same question, however I don't think Roberta ever expected the answer to be this:

Once again this reveals a plethora of information, some interesting, some not so. Whilst we all knew that Pete’s “Love Mountain” would be visible from space, we can also see that Spiral is horribly exposed by a lack of supporters, and whilst Jennie is well liked, she is not well loved.

As any self-respecting statistician should know, with 11 remaining housemates there are 55 unique pairs and 165 unique triplets, each one representing a potential future voting situation. I couldn’t possibly begin to guess which particular permutations or combinations would be of interest to you, but what I can promise is to respond fully to anyone who wants to know our thoughts on a potential head to head situation.

A topical one would be Richard vs Jayne, but that’s also a very very easy one…

Please let me know your thoughts

Best

Statman

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