Hypothesis 1: Broadsheets Use Longer Words That Tabloids

The aim of this project is to see whether the three hypotheses are correct or not.

Hypothesis 1: Broadsheets use longer words that tabloids.

Word length

Plan:

For this hypothesis I will be looking at 1 article from a broadsheet and a tabloid, which will have the same stories. I will cut out the articles from both of the papers and will highlight 100 words which is the word limit for this hypothesis. Once I have highlighted 100 words, I will create a tally chart recording all the values for the word length. Once all the values for the word length are recorded on the tally chart. Once all of the values for the word length are recorded on a tally chart, I will be creating a frequency table comparing the two sets of data. Once I have compared the two sets of data I am going to calculate the mean, median, range, mode, lower quartile (LQ), upper quartile (UQ) and the interquartile range (IQR) for the results that I have. As a result I will then finally compare the two articles with the aid of box plots.

An article from a tabloid newspaper An article from a broadsheet newspaper

Tally and a frequency table for a tabloid newspaper

Number of letters in a word Tally Frequency fx

1 2 2

2 17 34

3 19 57

4 15 60

5 13 65