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Results summary

Colour key:

–	Contestant was in the bottom two and had to sing again in the final showdown
–	Contestant received the fewest public votes and was immediately eliminated (no final showdown)
–	Contestant received the most public votes

	Week 1	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4	Week 5	Week 6	Week 7	Week 8	Week 9	Week 10	Week 11	Week 12	Week 13	Week 14
														Saturday	Sunday
Jade Richards	2nd 21.9%
Frankie Cucozza	5th 14.6%
Samantha Brooks	1st 26.3%
2 Shoes	3rd 18.3%
Janet Devlin	6th 13.1%
Johnny Robinson	4th 15.5%
Rhythmix	9th 9.5%
Melanie McCabe	8th 10.3%
John Wilding	10th 7.4%
Kitty Brucknell	7th 11.2%
Joe Cox	11th 4.2%
Amelia Lilly	14th 1.8%
Estrella	12th 3.1%
Max Vickers	15th 1.2%
Carolynne Poole	13th 2.1%
The Risk	16th 0.9%	Eliminated (Week 1)
Final showdown	Rachel Adedeji, Kandy Rain	Rachel Adedeji, Rikki Loney	Danyl Johnson, Miss Frank	Rachel Adedeji, Lloyd Daniels	John & Edward, Lucie Jones	Jamie Archer, Lloyd Daniels	John & Edward, Olly Murs	No judges' vote or final showdown: public votes alone decide who is eliminated and who ultimately wins
Walsh's vote to eliminate	Max Vickers	Charlwne JSJ	N/A2	Danyl Johnson	Lloyd Daniels	Lucie Jones	Jamie Archer					Olly Murs
Contostavlos's vote to eliminate	Max Vickers	Rikki Loney	Miss Frank	Lloyd Daniels	John & Edward	Lloyd Daniels	John & Edward
Rowland's vote to eliminate	The Risk	Rachel Adedeji	Danyl Johnson	Rachel Adedeji	John & Edward	Jamie Archer	John & Edward
Barlow's vote to eliminate	The Risk	Rikki Loney	Miss Frank	Rachel Adedeji	Lucie Jones	Lloyd Daniels	John & Edward
Eliminated	The Risk 2 of 4 votes Deadlock	Rikki Loney 2 of 3 votes Majority	Miss Frank 2 of 4 votes Deadlock	Rachel Adedeji 2 of 4 votes Deadlock	Lucie Jones 2 of 4 votes Deadlock	Jamie Archer 2 of 4 votes Deadlock	John & Edward 3 of 4 votes Majority	Lloyd Daniels 11.6% to save	Danyl Johnson 18.8% to save	Stacey Solomon 20.1% to win	Olly Murs 38.7% to win
											Joe McElderry 61.3% to win
Reference(s)

The voting percentages and the order in which the contestants finished (other than the revelation of the bottom two) were not announced until after the completion of the series.

• ^1 On behalf of Walsh in his absence, a vote was cast against Rachel Adedeji on the assumption that he would try to save his own act, Kandy Rain
• ^2 Walsh did not vote due to his absence, but did confirm on the following The Xtra Factor that he would have sent home Rikki Loney

Week 1 (11 October 2008)

• Theme: UK or US Number #1 Singles
• Celebrity guest: Leon Jackson ("Don't Call This Love")

Order	Artist	Song	Result
1	Janet Devlin"	With Or Without You"	Safe
2	Joe Cox	"Uptown Girl"	Safe
3	Daniel Evans	"I Want To Know What Love Is"	Safe
4	Alexandra Burke	"I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)"	Safe
5	JLS	"I'll Make Love To You"	Safe
6	Scott Bruton	"Yeh Yeh"	Safe
7	Rachel Hylton	"With Every Heartbeat"	Safe
8	Diana Vickers	"With or Without You"	Safe
9	Bad Lashes	"It Must Have Been Love"	Bottom two
10	Eoghan Quigg	"Imagine"	Safe
11	Ruth Lorenzo	"Take My Breath Away"	Safe
12	Laura White	"Fallin'"	Safe
Final Showdown Details
1	Girlband	"That's What Friends Are For"	Safe
2	Bad Lashes	"Wonderwall"	Eliminated

Judges' votes to eliminate

• Cowell: Bad Lashes – Described both acts as "shocking".
• Minogue: Girlband – Had no standout comment on either act.
• Cole: Girlband – Had no standout comment on either act.
• Walsh: Bad Lashes – Based on the fact that he couldn't pick between two of his own acts, he chose Bad Lashes to take it to a deadlock.

Notes

• As both acts received two votes from the judges, the result went to deadlock and was referred to the public vote. The act that received the fewest public votes was Bad Lashes who were duly eliminated from the show.

Sociobiology, Culture, and Letting the Venn Diagram Progress Through Time

The mystery of culture as a component of sustainability might be better understood through recognition of its antithesis, sociobiology .

Sociobiology is the theory that natural selection applies to genes, not to organisms. The natural role of any organism is to reproduce its genes. Thus any behavior of any organism, including man, that is attributable to genes rather than environment is presumed to have been selected for its propensity to aid propagation of the genes.

In a complex organism like a human, propagation of genes is only partly supported by behaviors aiding survival and reproduction of the organism thats carries them. It is also supported by behaviors that aid survival of the group.

The simplest example of the group is the couple. Sexual reproduction is basic and widespread; even some single-cell organisms seek others, adhere and combine their genetic material when conditions for simple reproduction become poor. From the simplest to the most complex organism, genes display enough humility to specify that they shall change partners. Forms as complex as the aphid reproduce asexually when conditions are good. Forms more complex than that do not.

Among humans, practices for choosing and retaining a mate vary tremendously with culture. Appreciating the degree to which culture specifies this behavior might help understanding of the role of culture. Appreciating the prevalence of exceptions, often regarded as sin, might help understanding of the roles of sub-cultures (family traditions) and of genes. Culture does not extinguish un-disciplined reproduction.

History, especially the sort found in the Old Testament, abounds with examples of self-preservation at the expense of the group. It also abounds with examples of the benefits of individual self-sacrifice to the propagation of the group. Humans have long responded to their perception of history by making choices in their environmental, religious, scientific, legal, political, military and economic contexts. Through these choices, humans modify what would otherwise be the deterministic and probabilistic course of natural selection.

For these reasons, the social component of the sustainability Venn diagram might be better understood by adding a vertical dimension that begins at the bottom with the gene pool, progresses through the present social situation, and continues upward toward toward an outcome. We might see the nearly-random recombination of genes that comes from the present right to marry at will as one step of a progression from isolated cultures to one world-wide culture to something else.

In like manner, the economic component might be traced vertically from self-sufficient behavior (subsistence) to the complex structures of corporation, bank and government we now have and on to something else.

Of course, the environmental component passes vertically from a natural, biodiverse state (which paleontology shows has varied greatly over time), to the comforts and miseries of human exploitation, and hence to either extinction or intelligent management by an organized humanity.

Small-scale physical ecological models can help us visualize deterministic part of the process if we bear in mind their limitations. Almost any combination of organisms placed on a gelled medium in a petri dish in the dark progresses through a series of relationships as they consume whatever energy source was provided, and then the community devolves to inactive, spore-like forms or to extinction. On the other hand, a sealed terrarium with a variety of plants and animals in the light can persist much longer. Energy is available through photosynthesis, and the community of organisms somehow solves its problems. This works best with a container with plenty of height. a small amount of non-nutritive, non-degradable soil (sand, perlite and vermiculite), and just the right amount of water. That community can live thirty years or more .

What is the something else? The Venn diagram only depicts; it does not compute. An algorithm that progresses correctly from what we know by geology, paleontology and history to what we have now will be a starting point in predicting the something else. If it is widely known and trusted, it will also help shape the something else.

Sustainability does not mean equilibrium. Even if it could, we humans would find it boring and would accept the risk of upsetting it. In the religious context, Calvinists stated this very simply: the chief end of man is to glorify God. Religious or not, this much is clear: we humans are here to do something.