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Saturday 1 August 2009

JULY'S I.C.s - CAROLYN QUINN


Busy Carolyn Quinn visits an ardent Radio 4 listener's ears with considerable regularity. As a result, this listener feels he knows her and knows her to be biased. Do the I.C.s confirm this feeling or is this listener going to have to eat his hat?
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Here are the July interruption coefficients for Carolyn Quinn:
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Bill Rammell, Labour (7/7) - 1.6
John Fitter, Conservative (10/7) - 1.6
Nick Clegg, Lib Dem (19/7) - 1.1
Maria Eagle, Labour (6/7) -1.0
Mark Field, Conservative (5/7) - 1.0
George Osborne, Conservative (8/7) - 0.9
John McDonnell, Labour (20/7) - 0.9
Mark Field, Conservative (19/7) - 0.8
Caroline Lucas, Green (5/7) -0.5
Liam Fox, Conservative (7/7) - 0.4
Damien Green, Conservative (31/7) - 0.4
Tom Harris, Labour (5/7) - 0.3
Douglas Alexander, Labour (6/7) - 0.3
Keith Simpson, Conservative (26/7) - 0.3
Lord Bach, Labour (28/7) - 0.2
Bob Ainsworth, Labour (10/7) - 0.2
Louise Ellman, Labour (2/7) - 0
Joanne McCartney, Labour (9/7) - 0
Tom Watson, Labour (5/7) - 0
Charles Kennedy, Lib Dem (25/7) - 0
Andrew Mitchell, Conservative (6/7) - 0
Andrew McKinley, Labour (31/7) - 0
Lord Phillips, Lib Dem (18/7) - 0
Tom Harris, Labour (19/7) - 0
Denis MacShane, Labour (26/7) - 0
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Average number of interruptions per political party:
Conservatives - 0.7
Labour - 0.4
Lib Dems - 0.4
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I have to confess that I though it would be more, but my hat isn't yet going to be eaten, as there is still statistically significant evidence of bias here, or at least a suggestion of it.
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That said my hat's survival is not helped by Carolyn's June averages - 0.9 for the Conservatives,
0.8 for Labour and 0.6 for the Lib Dems.
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My hat awaits the coming months with confidence.

1 comment:

  1. Ugly, isn´t she! Talk about a face for radio!

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