= 12
Upper Quartile = ¾ of 60 = 45th sentence
= 80
The Sunday Telegraph
Median = Halfway between 0 and 60
= 30
Lower Quartile = ¼ of 60 = 15th sentence
= 25
Upper Quartile = ¾ of 60 = 45th sentence
=34
The Herald Express
Median = Halfway between 0 and 60
= 20
Lower Quartile = ¼ of 60 = 15th sentence
= 14
Upper Quartile = ¾ of 60 = 45th sentence
= 26
Overall Results
From this I can see that there is a slight difference in the newspapers. Therefore it would make sense to go into more detail and analyse them further.
Category Results
To do this I will, using the same method, randomly select sentences from different categories in the newspapers; News, Entertainment and Sport. I will then draw up some box plots and analyse the results. I will need to make it fair results so I will stratify my sentences from each category.
News of the World
News
Pages = 30 30 x 180 = 96
56
Lowest Number of Words = 6
Highest Number of Words = 40
Lower Quartile = 16
Higher Quartile = 32
Median = 25
Entertainment
Pages 13 x 180 = 41
56
Lowest Number of Words = 6
Highest Number of Words = 30
Lower Quartile = 17
Higher Quartile = 26
Median =24
Sport
Pages 13 x 180 = 41
56
Lowest Number of Words = 6
Highest Number of Words = 30
Lower Quartile = 18
Higher Quartile = 26
Median =23
The Sunday Telegraph
News
Pages 28 x 180 = 99
51
Lowest Number of Words = 4
Highest Number of Words = 40
Lower Quartile = 19
Higher Quartile = 33
Median =26
Entertainment
Pages 10 x 180 = 35
51
Lowest Number of Words = 8
Highest Number of Words = 29
Lower Quartile = 19
Higher Quartile = 28
Median =24
Sport
Pages 13 x 180 = 46
51
Lowest Number of Words = 5
Highest Number of Words = 25
Lower Quartile = 14
Higher Quartile = 23
Median =20
Herald Express
News
Pages 25 x 180 = 85
53
Lowest Number of Words = 4
Highest Number of Words = 30
Lower Quartile = 10
Higher Quartile = 23
Median =19
Entertainment
Pages 17 x 180 = 58
53
Lowest Number of Words = 4
Highest Number of Words = 33
Lower Quartile = 13
Higher Quartile =27
Median =23
Sport
Pages 11x 180 = 37
53
Lowest Number of Words = 4
Highest Number of Words = 25
Lower Quartile = 10
Higher Quartile = 23
Median =14
I will now use box plots to examine the data. I will first examine the different categories within the newspapers.
Analysis
After examining the results, I can see that in most cases, the news section is harder to read than the entertainment or Sport. However, in the Herald Express, the entertainment section is the hardest. I can also see that throughout all the newspapers, the sentence length is always mainly longer sentences rather than shorter ones. I will now examine the box plots of the categories in comparison to the same categories in a different newspaper.
Analysis
The Box plots show that the entertainment sections of all newspapers are basically the same. There are only slight differences. The Sports interquartile ranges show that they are basically the same although the medians are very different. The news sections are basically the same except for the Herald Express which is an anomaly.
Conclusion
I think the results show, as I predicted, that the Sunday Telegraph is the hardest to read. However, all papers are very similar.