Comparing the Length of Words in a Broadsheet Newspaper and Tabloid Newspaper

Comparing the Length of Words in a Broadsheet Newspaper and Tabloid Newspaper

I am now going to start my mathematics statistics coursework. The aim

of this coursework is to compare the length of words in a broadsheet

newspaper to the length of words in a tabloid newspaper.

My first hypothesis is that in this investigation the broadsheet

newspaper should contain longer words than the tabloid newspaper. I

think this because in my opinion broadsheet newspapers are aimed at

higher class and more intelligent people than tabloid newspapers are

so the broadsheet newspaper should contain longer words.

My second hypothesis is that the broadsheet newspaper will have longer

words in the reader’s letters than the tabloid newspaper does. The

reason why I think this is because I think broadsheet newspapers are

aimed at more intelligent people so if more intelligent people buy

broadsheet newspapers than tabloid newspapers the broadsheets reader’s

letters should contain longer words. In this investigation I will test

my 2 hypotheses and I will find out whether or not they are correct.

In this investigation the person I will be working with and will be

comparing data with is Kieran Leith. The paper I have purchased is a

tabloid newspaper called the ‘Daily Mirror’. This will be my primary

source. Kieran has bought ‘The Guardian’ which is a broadsheet

newspaper. This will be my secondary source. Throughout this

investigation Kieran and me will be swapping the data we have found

from each of our newspapers. By working with a partner it enables me

to work at a faster pace and should do the same thing for Kieran.

The size of sample we will both be ...

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... then be converted into a line graph. This line

graph will enable me to find out the median, the upper quartile, the

lower quartile and the inter-quartuile range. Finally I will then do 2

box plots. One box plot will be for the tabloid newpaper and the other

box plot will be for the broadsheet newspaper. By doing box plots it

will help me to compare the distribution of the middle 50% of the

data.

Once all of this has been completed I will then start the extension

task for my coursework. I will obtain my information for the readers

letters from the tabloid newspaper and Kieran will do the same for the

broadsheet newspaper. This time instead of finding 200 words we will

only find 100. Everything else we will do the same. For example the

mode, range and mean, dual bar chart, cumulative frequency, box plots

etc.