Hypothesis:
I think that out of "The Sun", "The Times" and "The Daily Echo", the newspaper with the newspaper which would be considered hardest to read, due to having the longest word lengths, is most likely to be "The Times". The reason I think this is because "The Times" attracts an audience of people such as business-men and business-women, who are more stereotypically likely to be more fussed over reading about predominantly important news (which is what "The Times" offers most of being a broadsheet newspaper), compared to "The Sun" (which is a red top paper and I would predict to have the shortest word lengths), and "The Daily Echo" (which is a tabloid newspaper). I believe that broadsheet newspapers are a lot more intellectual than red-top newspapers and tabloid newspapers.
Plan:
To find out if my hypothesis is correct, I plan to collect some data. I will need to collect data, that being the word length, in the following newspapers: "The Sun", "The Times" and "The Daily Echo". I will collect my data by selecting a "Sports" article, a "Political" article, and a "Death" article, from each of the three newspapers. I will select the a sample of 150 words, and starting from the first word of the article (not including the headline), make a tally of the different word lengths contained in that sample. I chose this as my plan of action as it is a systematic method, and seemed a good way to avoid bias in my investigation. I will draw diagrams such as tally charts, line graphs, cumulative frequency graphs, box and whisker diagrams, bar charts and scatter graphs, to help me to sum up my conclusions. I will analyse my data, and calculate the means, modes, medians, and ranges (averages), in order to identify which of the three newspapers contains the longest word lengths.
I think that out of "The Sun", "The Times" and "The Daily Echo", the newspaper with the newspaper which would be considered hardest to read, due to having the longest word lengths, is most likely to be "The Times". The reason I think this is because "The Times" attracts an audience of people such as business-men and business-women, who are more stereotypically likely to be more fussed over reading about predominantly important news (which is what "The Times" offers most of being a broadsheet newspaper), compared to "The Sun" (which is a red top paper and I would predict to have the shortest word lengths), and "The Daily Echo" (which is a tabloid newspaper). I believe that broadsheet newspapers are a lot more intellectual than red-top newspapers and tabloid newspapers.
Plan:
To find out if my hypothesis is correct, I plan to collect some data. I will need to collect data, that being the word length, in the following newspapers: "The Sun", "The Times" and "The Daily Echo". I will collect my data by selecting a "Sports" article, a "Political" article, and a "Death" article, from each of the three newspapers. I will select the a sample of 150 words, and starting from the first word of the article (not including the headline), make a tally of the different word lengths contained in that sample. I chose this as my plan of action as it is a systematic method, and seemed a good way to avoid bias in my investigation. I will draw diagrams such as tally charts, line graphs, cumulative frequency graphs, box and whisker diagrams, bar charts and scatter graphs, to help me to sum up my conclusions. I will analyse my data, and calculate the means, modes, medians, and ranges (averages), in order to identify which of the three newspapers contains the longest word lengths.
