The Guardian
Conclusion
I have found out that my hypothesis was correct, as The Sun has got the most entertainment of 31% whereas The Guardian has the least amount of entertainment of 5%.
I was also correct to predict that The Sun would have the least amount of business as it had 0% of business while The Daily Mail and The Guardian both had 3% of business articles.
I was wrong to predict that The Sun would have the most amount of sports as it did not, The Daily Mail did, it had 20% sports but The Sun had 14% of sports. The Guardian had the least amount of sports with 10%
My hypothesis that the Guardian would have the most amount of adverts than the other two newspapers was correct as The Guardian had 71% of adverts whereas The Sun had 46% of adverts and the Daily Mail had 45% of adverts.
I can also see that the Guardian has got the most amount of news with 11% and The Daily Mail follows with 10% of news and The Sun has got 9% of news in the newspaper.
Readability
In this part of the coursework, I will see which newspaper is easier to read out of the three newspapers. I will do this by counting the letters in a word. From my percentage table, I will use each percentage to workout the number of words I will use to calculate.
- News 9%: 9 word
- Entertainment 32%: 32 words
- Sports 14%: 14 words
- Adverts 46%: 46 words
- Business 0% :0 words
- News 10%: 10 word
- Entertainment 22%: 22 words
- Sports 20%: 20 words
- Adverts 45%: 45 words
- Business 3%: 3 words
- News 11%: 11 word
- Entertainment 5%: 5 words
- Sports 10%: 10 words
- Adverts 71%: 71 words
- Business 3%: 3 words
I will not use words such as a, it, is, if, the, their, I, and, can because it does not test the readability as these words are common and easy to read, however it is a different word which does not appear commonly, I will use it.
To decide what words to use, I will use my birth date or birth month. I am going to use every 7th word.
Hypothesis
My hypothesis is that:
- The Guardian will have longer words than The Daily Mail which will have longer words that The Sun.
- The Guardian will also have harder words to read compared to The Sun.
- The Sun will have the most easiest words to read
- The Sun should have shorter and less complex words that the other two newspapers.
- The Daily mail will not have very difficult words to read and the word will be less complex than The guardian but more complex than The Sun.
- The Guardian has got the most news, so it would appeal to the more intellectual audience so it will have a higher range of word than The Sun.
- The Sun appears to have the most entertainment so it should have words that are not long and easier to read.
The Sun
Lower Quartile: 100+1 =25.25 = 3.9
4
Median: 100+1 =50.5 = 5.1
2
Upper Quartile: 3(100+1) =75.75 = 6.8
4
Inter Quartile: 75.75 - 25.25 = 50.5
The Daily Mail
Lower Quartile: 100+1 =25.25 = 3.5
4
Median: 100+1 =50.5 = 5
2
Upper Quartile: 3(100+1) =75.75 = 7.1
4
Inter Quartile: 75.75 - 25.25 = 50.5
The Guardian
Lower Quartile: 100+1 =25.25 = 4
4
Median: 100+1 =50.5 = 5.7
2
Upper Quartile: 3(100+1) =75.75 = 8
4
Inter Quartile: 75.75 - 25.25 = 50.5
The Sun
Mean: 608 =6.08 = 3
100
Variance
∑fx(x-x)2 = 34586 = 345.86
∑f 100
Standard Deviation
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√ 345.86 = 18.597 (3dp)
The Daily Mail
Mean: 588 =5.88 = 3
100
Variance:
∑fx(x-x)2 = 32074 =320.74
∑f 100
Standard deviation:
______
√320.74 = 17.909 (3dp)
The Guardian
Mean: 629 =6.29 = 3
100
Variance:
∑fx(x-x)2 = 7011 =70.11
∑f 100
Standard deviation:
____
√70.11 = 8.373 (3dp)
The Sun
Lower Quartile: 100+1 =25.25 = 3.9
4
Median: 100+1 =50.5 = 5.1
2
Upper Quartile: 3(100+1) =75.75 = 6.8
4
Inter quartile: 75.75 - 25.25 = 50.5
Lowest Value: 3
Highest Value: 14
Mean: 608 =6.08 = 3
100
The Daily Mail
Lower Quartile: 100+1 =25.25 = 3.5
4
Median: 100+1 =50.5 = 5
2
Upper Quartile: 3(100+1) =75.75 = 7.1
4
Inter quartile: 75.75 - 25.25 = 50.5
Lowest Value: 3
Highest Value: 13
Mean: 588 =5.88 = 3
100
The Guardian
Lower Quartile: 100+1 =25.25 = 4
4
Median: 100+1 =50.5 = 5.7
2
Upper Quartile: 3(100+1) =75.75 = 8
4
Inter quartile: 75.75 - 25.25 = 50.5
Lowest Value: 3
Highest Value: 11
Mean: 629 =6.29 = 3
100
Conclusion
From my box plot and graphs I can see that The Daily Mail has the lowest quartile value of 3.5, so it has got the word lengths are the shorter than The Guardian which agreed with my hypothesis but it also has shorted word length than The Sun which does not agree with my hypothesis as I said that The Sun would have the smaller words and the easiest to read.
The Guardian has got the highest quartile value of 8 so it shows that it has got longer words that The Sun and The Daily Mail. The value of the upper Quartile for The Sun is 6.8, which is less than both The Daily Mail, which has the upper value of 7.1, which proves that is also easier to read. I also stated in my hypothesis that the Guardian would have a higher range of words and I was proven correct and also that I said The Sun would have the easiest words to read, so I was also correct to state that.
I also included a Standard deviation so that I could see whether the newspaper is spread out or not. From my standard deviation I can see that the most spread out and easier to read newspaper is the sun as it is 18.587 whereas the Guardian is 8.373, which clearly shows that The Sun is more spread out than The guardian. I can also see that The Daily Mail is also quite spread out as the standard deviation is 17.909, which is closer to The Sun than The Guardian.
