MARCH'S I.C.s - THE PARTY AVERAGES

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My favourite measure of bias across the Beeb is the super-average interruption coefficient - which is calculated very simply by adding up all the individual I.C.s for each party & then dividing them by the number of interviewed granted to each party that month. As with all statistics, the larger the sample, the better the result - and the more significant any differences (hence the increase of the I.C. to 2 decimal places).

Here is how things worked out in March (as ever the number of interviews on which the averages are based appear in brackets):

UKIP (6) - 1.52
Conservatives (94) - 1.00
Labour (124) - 0.72
BNP (1) - 0.70
Lib Dems (72) - 0.64
SNP (10) - 0.53
PUP (1) - 0.40
Plaid Cymru (1) - 0.40
Independents (2) - 0.40
UUP (2) - 0.35
Green (2) - 0
DUP (1) - 0
TUV (1) - 0
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Another month and yet more evidence that the Conservatives are significantly more likely to be interrupted by BBC interviewers than their Labour equivalents.
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And another month and yet more evidence that UKIP fares worse than any other party, including the Conservatives, at the hands of the biased BBC.
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