From this table you can see that in the magazine article the most occurring result is three letter words.
Mean:
The mean number of words for the magazine is;
1x3+2x13+3x26+4x14+5x13+6x5+7x10+8x5+9x7+10x2+11x0+12x1+13x1
=476q
476/100=4.76
The mean for the amount of letters per word for this article is 4.76.
Bar chart showing results
The Bar chart shows the number of letters and frequency in each word from the magazine article about the rugby. It shows me simply how many letters there are in each word and how often a word with say 5 letters will occur in this article.
'Taking the strain' Evening star newspaper
This table shows my results gathered from the Evening start newspaper about the Rugby.
I have used a tally to collect the data.
To show my results I have produced two charts which will help to compare the data from both of the Rugby articles.
From this table you can see that in the newspaper article has the most occurring result which is three letter words that is also the same with the magazine.
Mean:
The mean number of words for the newspaper is;
1x3+2x12+3x21+4x19+5x11+6x10+7x10+8x7+9x5+10x1+11x1=473
473/100=4.73
The mean for the amount of letters per word for this article is 4.73
The mean for the magazine is higher than the mean for the newspaper article.
Bar chart showing results
The Bar chart shows the number of letters in each word and the frequency from the newspaper article about the rugby, it shows me simply how many letters there are in each word and how often a word with say 5 letters will occur in this article.
Graph showing results.
This graph shows the number of letters in each word and the frequency from the newspaper article about the rugby.
Bar chart comparing the newspaper and magazine articles
This bar chart shows both results from the magazine and the newspaper articles, with this bar chart you can compare the results and see the differences if there is any.
The graph shows the frequency from both articles.
This is an easy way of looking at the data and comparing it.
On this occasion the magazine has one of the longest words containing 13 letters, but most of the other words are short and contain from 1-9 letters in each word.
The word 'international' was the longest word in the magazine; you would expect words like this when they are talking about a sport.
The newspaper however has the same amount of letters in words as the magazine but they are more occurring.
There are a lot of words containing 6-8 letters in the newspaper article; where as the magazine most of the words are short apart from the odd result.
You would expect there to be a few odd results, because it may depend and make a difference on which subject they are talking about, and what sort of age group the writer is referring to.
The magazine I believe is written for quite a young age group, whereas newspapers tend to be read by everyone.
Conclusion
My hypothesis was right that newspapers do contain longer words than magazines, apart from that they contain the same amount of letters in each word, but in newspapers the longer words are more occurring.
So I have noticed that the newspaper and magazine articles do have similar results.
I may have got different results if I had of chosen two different subjects maybe one quite political and one not. My hypothesis was still right.
