I was asked to investigate a hypothesis of my own choice based around the topic of newspapers for my statistical coursework. I am going to investigate two hypotheses where I will compare broadsheets and tabloids with each other.

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Introduction

I was asked to investigate a hypothesis of my own choice based around the topic of newspapers for my statistical coursework. I am going to investigate two hypotheses where I will compare broadsheets and tabloids with each other.

My hypotheses

Hypothesis 1

I think that older people will read more broadsheets and younger people will read more tabloids, or not read at all. I will also have the option of reading them both. To find out this data I am going to carry out a survey by asking a variety of people some questions based on this hypothesis. To set out the results from the information I have gathered I will display the data in a pie chart format.

Hypothesis 2

I think that broadsheets will have more words in each sentence than tabloids will. To find this information out I am going to look at stories that are the same in the tabloids and in the broadsheets. This will be the David Beckham story. I am also going to look at another two stories in a tabloid and another 2 in a broadsheet or how ever many stories it takes to get my total number of sentences up to 30. I am doing this so I can make sure that I get fair results. To show my results I am going to plot a stem and leaf diagram then from this I can do a box and whisker plot.

Plan

To do my research I am going to use the Sunday Times, which are a broadsheet and the news of the world, which is a tabloid. I am going to use these papers because they both have the David Beckam story in. I am also going to get more sentences that bring the total up to 30 both for the broadsheets and the tabloids. I am going to look at the David Beckham story in the broadsheet and count how many words there are in each sentence until I get to the end of the story. I will record the data by putting the title of the paper. I will then label one to show the number of sentences. I will then count how many words there are in each sentence and record my results foe example

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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 ...

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