Whether Broadsheet Newspapers Have Longer Words than Tabloids
Hypothesis
My hypothesis is that broadsheet newspapers do have longer words than
tabloid newspaers. Some broadsheet newspapers include
· The Times
· The Gaurdian
· The Independant
These kinds of newspapers are usually associated with business men and
higher class. Tabloid newspapers include
· The Mirror
· The Sun
These newspapers have more gossip, so they are usually associated with
lower class. This is the reason why I think broadsheets have longer
words than tabloids, because the broadsheets target market is educated
people.
Strategy
My strategy for this investigation is to choose two different
newspapers, these will be The Gaurdian and the Mirror. I will use
random sampling when choosing an article from each newspaper. I will
do this by opening the paper at a random page, I will then drop a coin
and the article the coin lands on will be the article I use for my
sample. Then I am going to count the number of letters in the first
100 words, I will not be counting names, this is because some names
may be quite long and they could mess up my results.
To help me with my investigaton I am going to use the data handling
cycle below.
Specify the problem and plan
Collect data from a
variety of sources
Interpret and discuss data
Process and represent data
After I have collected my data I will be analysing it using bar
charts, mean, mode, median, range, circumulative frequency,
interquartile range, box plots and pie charts.
Results
I have collected my results from an article in the Guardian and the
Mirror.
The Gaurdian (broadsheet)
number of letters in words Total
1 3
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