- Length of title in letters
The only bias I can think of is that the broadsheet has a broader page, but I cannot do anything to change this and I do not think it will affect my results dramatically.
- Length of article in letters
The only bias I can think of is that the broadsheet has a broader page, but I cannot do anything to change this and I do not think it will affect my results dramatically.
- Length of title in letters
The only bias I can think of is that the broadsheet has a broader page, but I cannot do anything to change this and I do not think it will affect my results dramatically.
- Length of paragraph in words
The only bias I can think of is that the broadsheet has a broader page, but I cannot do anything to change this and I do not think it will affect my results dramatically.
- Amount of pictures
The only bias I can think of is that the broadsheet has a broader page, but I cannot do anything to change this and I do not think it will affect my results dramatically.
As you can see there are no real rooms for concern in my investigation as the only qualm is the size of the broadsheet newspaper. As the investigation is all about the differences between the two newspapers, I have no concerns.
Hypothesis
I am going to give my predictions in the same order as I did in the introduction for ease of reference. I will use the same numbers as I did in the introduction.
- Length of article in words
I think that the broadsheet will have more words in the article because broadsheets are bigger and more intellectual.
- Length of sentence in words
I think that the broadsheet will have more words in a sentence because in my opinion tabloids go for short snappy sentences.
- Length of sentence in letters
I think that the broadsheet will have more letters in a sentence because in my opinion tabloids go for short snappy sentences. Also broadsheets are broader this giving more space for text.
- Length of word in letters
I think the broadsheet will have larger words as on the whole they have a more educated reader generally meaning more sophisticated longer words.
- Length of title in letters
I think that the broadsheet will have a longer title because it will not have gimmicky headlines.
- Length of paragraph in words
I think the broadsheet will have a longer paragraph for the reasons stated in section 3 length of sentence in letters.
- Amount of pictures
I think the tabloid will do better on the picture front, as tabloids use the page up with big pictures.
Conclusion
1) Length of article in words
In my hypothesis I said that I thought that the broadsheet would have more words in the article. I said this because broadsheets are bigger or broader (the name gives it away) and because they are considered a more intellectual type of newspaper. In my result sheet it shows I was very wrong as the tabloid had almost twice as many words in the article than the broadsheet. The reason for this may have been because the tabloids placed a higher state of importance in this article or type of article, or it may just be that the words in the tabloid are shorter thus leaving more space for more of them I will look into this in ‘4) length of word in letters’.
However I cannot argue with the numbers, which clearly show that the tabloid outstripped the broadsheet. In total the tabloid had 544 words in their article, and the broadsheet had just 257.
2) Length of sentence in words
In my hypothesis I said that I thought that broadsheet would have more words in a sentence, and I fell that, that prediction has been justified. You can see from the graph on the results sheet that throughout, apart from one blip, the length of the sentence was longer.
I think the results can be explained for the same reasons listed in my hypothesis, which are ‘in my opinion tabloids go for short snappy sentences’.
3) Length of sentence in letters
My prediction in my hypothesis was wrong, as there was no real difference between the tabloid and the broadsheet newspapers. The broadsheet looks like a boat on my scatter graph on my results sheet because it is up and down there is no correlation and this is then same for the tabloid too. Overall I was wrong but I was not entirely wrong because neither of them war the bigger. Saying that, the mean and the median show that the broadsheet is slightly bigger.
4) Length of word in letters
In my hypothesis I said that I though that the broadsheet will have bigger words as on the whole they have a more educated reader generally meaning more sophisticated longer words. I have been proven wrong, as the mean on the tabloid is 5.36 and the mean on the broadsheet is 4.86, this quite clearly shows that the length of the words in the tabloid is bigger.
This is somewhat flabbergasting to me as in one of the other aspects of my investigation (1) Length of article in words), I explained a dodgy result, as the words in the tabloid are smaller. I have no reason or explanation for this.
5) Length of title in letters
In my hypothesis I said that I thought that the broadsheet would have a longer title as the broadsheet had a broader paper thus giving a larger surface mass to write on. Yet again I was wrong the broadsheet had a smaller title in letters than the tabloid. I cannot explain this, it is obvious to me and to any one reading this that I was wrong.
6) Length of paragraph in words
In the hypothesis I said that I thought that the broadsheet would have more words in a paragraph for the reason as follows the broadsheet would have a longer title as the broadsheet had a broader paper thus giving a larger surface mass to write on. And yet again I am wrong it is in the middle, neither here nor there. You can see this much more clearly if you look at the results page.
7) Amount of pictures
In my conclusion I said that thought that the tabloid would have more pictures as tabloids usually use up there column inches with pictures of Jordan. I was right and wrong, as each newspaper had one picture each. Therefore the tabloid didn’t have more but neither did the broadsheet. There is no way I could have predicted this result, more accurately as I used all the information available to me and came up with this result.
If I did my investigation again one of the things which I would change would be my hypothesis. I would change this because when I look at my results I can see that I jumped to assumption s about things which I shouldn’t which got in the way of my hypothesis. Another thing I would change would be the ways I showed some of the data. The most blatant case is ‘Length of word in letters’, this is because it is solely tables and no graphs, this is all well and good if you have the time to sit down and decipher all the information but it is useless if you want a fleeting glance at the information. So I would change that section and put either a frequency polygon or a scatter graph to show this date in a better light. Another thing I would change would be the information I gave when I made the results sheet. On some I listed all the mean, median, mode and range, and on others I listed them jointly. This was useless because it tells you nothing of the differences.