The Sunday times
Number of words Number of sentence
54 1
43 2
34 3
After I have collected all my data in this form I will put the number of words in a sentence in order from smallest number first to the biggest number for the 30 sentences from the broadsheets and the tabloids so I can find the mean, median and the mode. I will then be able to do a stem and leaf diagram, and then from this I am going to plot a box and whisker plot. Hopefully this will answer my hypothesis and tell me if I was correct or wrong. This is the plan for my hypothesis two.
For my hypothesis one I am going to carry out a survey to collect the data I need. I am going to ask 52 people some questions based upon my hypothesis, which will hopefully answer it. To make it equal I will ask 26 people who are all aged 14-19 to answer my questions and another 26 people who are aged 20-69 to answer my questions so I have a range of results. Hopefully the older people will read the broadsheets and the younger people will read the tabloids. If this is true my hypothesis will be correct. To show my results I am going to tally the information I got off my surveys then show my tallied results in a pie chart. I will need to do one for tabloids, broadsheets, both, and neither. This then should show me id my hypothesis is correct.
This tally is to show my results from my surveys I did.
Tabloids
360/20 = 18
This shows me that the majority of people aged 14- 19 read tabloids, then people ages 40 – 49 read the second most. I am very surprised that none of the 20 – 29 year olds I surveyed read any tabloids.
Broadsheets
360/5 = 72
This pie chart shoes me that the older generation i.e. 60-69 read more broadsheets than they do tabloids then the sections are rather equal for the other age groups but no one ages 30-39 and 40-49 read broadsheets which is also surprising because they are in the older half of the age group.
Both
360/15 = 24
This is quite surprising because 14 – 19 and 40 –49 both have the same sized slice of the pie chart this shows me that they both read both papers while the others either read one or the other or neither. Everyone else has a small slice of the pie chart this shows me that the rest of the people I surveyed do not really read both papers.
Neither
360/12 = 30
On this pie chart it shows me that people aged 14 – 19 and 20 – 29 choose not to read any papers at all.
From doing this I have found out that more younger people choose to read either no papers at all or tabloids while older people choose to read both or broadsheets. This has now shown me that my hypothesis was correct from doing these surveys and pie charts.
Now I am going to research my other hypothesis. Below is all the words that are in each sentence in different articles in broadsheets and tabloids.
The Sunday times
Beckham story
62 in 1st
28 in 2nd
35 in 3rd
39 in 4th
24 in 5th
40 in 6th
29 in 7th
50 in 8th
59 in 9th
22 in 10th
Israel warns of stealth terrorists
25 in 1st
22 in 2nd
18 in 3rd
24 in 4th
15 in 5th
23 in 6th
22 in 7th
23 in 8th
18 in 9th
17 in 10th
32 in 11th
News of the world
Beckham Story
18 in 1st
21 in 2nd
18 in 3rd
28 in 4th
23 in 5th
45 in 6th
10 in 7th
11 in 8th
17 in 9th
18 in 10th
18 in 11th
22 in 12th
34 in 13th
16 in 14th
18 in 15th
23 in 16th
9 in 17th
11 in 18th
21 in 19th
37 in 20th
I am now going to take some more sentences from either paper to build the number of sentences up to 30. This is so I can produce a stem and leaf diagram, then from this I can produce a box and whisker plot.
News of the world
23 in 1st
16 in 2nd
37 in 3rd
21 in 4th
52 in 5th
40 in 6th
24 in 7th
21 in 8th
11 in 9th
17 in 10th
Sunday times
37 in 1st
28 in 2nd
27 in 3rd
60 in 4th
48 in 5th
18 in 6th
51 in 7th
35 in 8th
13 in 9th
20 in 10th
Now I will list all the number of words in a sentence then plot them in a stem and leaf diagram for the Sunday times.
62 in 1st
28 in 2nd
35 in 3rd
39 in 4th
24 in 5th
40 in 6th
29 in 7th
50 in 8th
59 in 9th
22 in 10th
25 in 1st
22 in 2nd
18 in 3rd
24 in 4th
15 in 5th
23 in 6th
22 in 7th
23 in 8th
18 in 9th
17 in 10th
37 in 1st
28 in 2nd
27 in 3rd
60 in 4th
48 in 5th
18 in 6th
51 in 7th
35 in 8th
13 in 9th
20 in 10th
I will now repeat what I have just done for the new of the world.
18 in 1st
21 in 2nd
18 in 3rd
28 in 4th
23 in 5th
45 in 6th
10 in 7th
11 in 8th
17 in 9th
18 in 10th
18 in 11th
22 in 12th
34 in 13th
16 in 14th
18 in 15th
23 in 16th
9 in 17th
11 in 18th
21 in 19th
37 in 20th
23 in 1st
16 in 2nd
37 in 3rd
21 in 4th
52 in 5th
40 in 6th
24 in 7th
21 in 8th
11 in 9th
17 in 10th