Practice: track your sources
Who is in this game?
The game tells reporters to keep a record of who they contact and quote, and to review it, as BBC teams do in the 50:50 Project. This page does the same for the game itself. Every character who appears as a source is listed below with the characteristics they were cast with, then counted.
These are the characteristics the designer gave each character. With real sources, don’t guess: record what people tell you about themselves, or what is on the public record, and only where it is relevant and they are comfortable with it.
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Breakdown
Each bar counts people, not appearances. The black marker shows the share of the population in England and Wales. The blue marker shows the BBC’s 50:50 target, where there is one.
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What the audit shows
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Findings exclude scenario figures and were written for the current set of questions.
Who gets which role
Appearances as a good source only (best answers, good choices, draft sources and named sources in scenarios), counted by PEER role. Weak options are counted separately.
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All sources
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Not counted: anonymous vox pops and social media posts. Class, religion (beyond visible dress), sexuality (beyond a visible badge), rural or urban background and many disabilities can’t be seen. The audit only records them where the story says so, which is part of what it shows.