More Labour rankings
I blogged yesterday some rankings for Labour MPs, based on their number of PQs, releases and news stories.
Rob Salmond helpfully suggested that rather than just averaging out their ranking in each category, I should measure how from the mean each MP is in each category and average those out. I’ve done so for the table above, and I think it does give a better feel.
The MPs are ranked on their simple average. I’ve also calculated a weighted average where the number of news stories is given 1/2 weight, number of releases 1/3 weight and number of PQs 1/6th.
Some observations:
- Goff and King now ranked 1st and 2nd, which is appropriate.
- Mallard and Hipkins are ranked third and fourth mainly due to their high number of PQs. On the weighted average though Hipkins is ranked lower
- On the weighted average Charles Chauvel and Phil Twyford are 4th and 5th
- Ashraf Choudhary, Rajen Prasad and Raymond Huo are still ranked as the bottom three
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April 8th, 2010 at 10:09 am
Interested to see Damien O’Connor so low. Has he given up already? Interested to see Parekura so high – does he get his staff to do the work for him? In fact, are those that are lowly rated not only so lazy as to do little work, but also so lazy as to not even bother to make their staff do work for them?
April 8th, 2010 at 10:39 am
What does Ashraf Choudhary do? He does not have an electorate to worry about. On this scale he does one tenth of the work your average Labour MP does. Is he just in it for the wine and cheese?
April 8th, 2010 at 10:42 am
Accuse me of being racist here, but what is up with the 3 Asian MPs being on the bottom of the list?
Does this mean Labour is anti-Asian? Has a bit of Winston rubbed off on the Labour Party?
April 8th, 2010 at 12:52 pm
Great to see Jolly Jim squarly recorded as a Labour party puppet. Jolly Jim the rort-mister….
April 8th, 2010 at 12:56 pm
Grizz
Have you noticed the shortage of cats around the opposition benches recently ?
April 8th, 2010 at 2:57 pm
David, could you break those stories and releases down into bare-faced lies, duplicitous comment, malicious misinformation, unsubstantiated and scurrilous allegation, shamefaced denial of Helengrad, and good old fashioned own goals?
I appreciate that the table gets a bit large with that extra data, but perhaps you could simply omit anything that was truthful or of merit – I expect those statistics would be sufficiently immaterial to warrant being ignored.
April 8th, 2010 at 4:52 pm
Cripes now you have done it big time. One Raymond Huo will lead the news tonight as “his” yoof mp is off to Galipoli having won the Cyril Bassett memorial speach award. Is this the first dance of the desparate items.
Congratulations to the lass who won.
But will this resurrect his languishing ranking in all your categories.
Do the bottom three face automatic relegation.
April 8th, 2010 at 5:04 pm
The lesson being, if you stack your list with candidates chosen for no other ability than to add ethnicity to caucus snapshots, you’re saddling the taxpayer with the bill for vacuuous non-performers.
The best that can be said for those three is that at least they just do nothing, rather than make their party a laughing stock *cough*MelissaLee*cough*
Time to let the voting public rank the party lists.
April 8th, 2010 at 5:45 pm
“*cough*MelissaLee*cough*”
… splutter splutter …
Thanks for that Rex. Just when I’d forgotten all about her (like everyone else I expect).
April 8th, 2010 at 5:48 pm
The Labour Party on issues of race has always been about tokenism – be seen but NOT heard. The top of the party continues to be run by white men, though women from time to time make a splash. So the above rankings point out this characteristic.
April 8th, 2010 at 5:54 pm
… have to say, its a pretty sobering list. In fact enough to almost make one despair.
If it wasn’t for the fact that I already thought they were all a bunch of frightful creeps, I’d take the time to analyse that table into list and electorate seats and then add in a travel expenses column. But they’re awful and its bad enough now having looked at the list twice, without actually having to sit down and concentrate on it.