Investigate if there is a relationship between the length and width of the leaves.
Statistics Coursework Aim: To investigate if there is a relationship between the length and width of the leaves. I will also investigate summary measures to represent my data. Data Collection: I choose to collect my leaves from a tree in my back garden, as it was easy to access. I picked the leaves from different places and different heights around the tree so that my sample of leaves would be random. I choose a sample size of 35 leaves because it is large enough to reflect the trend amongst the width and length of the leaves on the tree, but still keeping it to a manageable size. When I collected 35 leaves I measured the length of each leaf in millimetres from the end of the stalk where it is attacked to the tree to the tip. I measured the widest part also in millimetres to find out the width. The results are in the table below: - Length mm Width mm Length mm Width mm 30 60 10 50 90 40 96 44 00 50 05 50 70 30 70 34 67 33 80 43 95 45 10 40 97 47 11 55 23 60 19 62 15 58 81 43 36 64 20 63 20 57 10 50 93 47 03 46 12 58 93 40 83 41 92 44 77 36 85 45 89 39 30 78 25 61 28 71 57 25 Analysis of Data: First I shall calculate a summary value from the raw data. A measure of location is the mean. It is used when all the actual values are taken into account. In this circumstance that is true, therefore I am
Children's Book Investigation
Mode The mode= 3 letters per word as that has the most entries Range The range= the highest number of letters per word - the smallest number of letters per word. = 13-1 = 12 Median The median of 871 items is at the 436th no. (middle value), which is equal to 4 Mean= 4 letters per word Mode= 3 letters per word Range= 12 Median= 4 letters per word Standard Deviation Standard deviation= Mean = Mean = 3382 871 Mean = 4 No. of letters per word 2 2 -3 9 27 2 -2 4 8 3 -1 4 0 0 0 5 6 2 4 8 7 3 9 27 8 4 6 64 9 5 25 25 0 6 36 216 1 7 49 343 2 8 64 512 3 9 81 729 Total = 299 2061 Standard deviation = = = = 2.62 (2dp) = 3 This tells us that the number of letters per word in an adult's book will normally be within 3 of the mean. In other words the number of letters per word will usually be between 1 and 7. Childs book No. Of letters per word Total (Frequency) No. X frequency 53 53 2 72 44 3 89 267 4 71 284 5 58 290 6 37 222 7 26 82 8 21 68 9 3 27 0 0 Total= 441 647 Mean Mean= 3rd row total 2nd row total Mean= 1647 441 Mean= 3.73 (2dp) Mean= 3 letters per word Mode Mode= 3 letters per word as that has the most entries Range The range= highest number of letters per word - smallest number of letters per word = 10- 1 = 9 Median The median of 441 items is at
Investigating Newspapers
Investigating Newspapers Plan I will be investigating the readability of 3 newspapers by comparison. These newspapers are: * The Sun (tabloid) * The Daily Telegraph (broadsheet) * Daily Mail (quality) I am using these three newspapers because they provide a variety of styles of newspaper. I will be investigating the: * Word length (letters) * Sentence length (words) * Article length (sentences) In each news paper I will choose three articles to focus on these points with - a sport article, a headline article, and a mid-paper article. I will be comparing the papers by using: mean, median, mode, standard deviation, and box and whisker diagrams along with upper quartiles, lower quartiles and interquartile ranges. Prediction I think that the broadsheet (The Daily Telegraph) will turn out to have larger article lengths, sentence length, and word length. So in this order of readability (where number one is the most readable): . The Daily Telegraph (broadsheet) 2. Daily Mail (quality) 3. The Sun (tabloid) I think this because The Broadsheet papers are said to be more intellectual and informational. Thus I thought that they might have more complicated information and more information in them. I put The Sun at the bottom, because from what I know about The Sun it tends to have more pictures than the broadsheet papers, so I thought that it might not have as much
Find out if The Mirror contains more sport than The Daily Telegraph and The Daily Mail.
Aim I want to find out if The Mirror contains more sport than The Daily Telegraph and The Daily Mail. Hypothesis 2 I predict that the mirror will have more articles on sport than the other two papers. Plan I will count the amount of sports articles in each of three papers. The papers I'm going to use are The Daily Telegraph which is a broadsheet, The Daily Mirror which is a tabloid and the Daily Mail which is in between a tabloid and a broadsheet. I am comparing the different kinds of papers. Then I'm going to count the total amount of articles in each paper too see if the paper with the most sports articles has the highest percentage of sports articles out of the total amount of articles in that particular paper. From this I'm going to get a percentage which I'm going to put into a percentage bar graph. To further analyse my data I'm going to make a tally chart to show how many articles were on each page in each of the papers. Bar charts This bar chart shows that Daily Mirror had the most articles on sport. It shows that the Daily Mail had the least amount of articles on sports. The Daily Mirror had 45 sports articles, The Daily Mail had 22 sports articles and The Telegraph had 35 sports articles. The next bar chart I've drawn is to show the percentage of articles on sport out of the total amount of articles in each paper. I figured these percentages out by dividing
Modes of Modern English Vocabulary Development
Modes of Modern English Vocabulary Development Modern English (1500-up to now) began with the establishment of printing in England. Considering the changes in vocabulary, we are in the late period of Modern English (1700-up to now). Since the beginning of this century, particularly after the Second World War, new inventions and new scientific discoveries are made daily. New products of all kinds appear in shops. Social relationships and ways of living change rapidly. When people want to talk or write about all these new things, they need names for them and words to describe them. Therefore, new words have being invented or introduced every day to express new things and new changes in society. Gradually they have gained acceptance and become part of the English vocabulary. In that case where do all these new words come from? How does modern vocabulary develop? Generally speaking, there are three channels through which modern English vocabulary develops. They are creation, semantic change and borrowing. * creation Creation refers to the formation of new words by using the existing materials, namely roots, affixes and other elements. In modern times, this is the most important way of vocabulary expansion. There is a variety of means to produce words. The most productive are affixation, composition and conversion. Let's focus on one of them: composition. According to the
Comparison of two different newspapers, one tabloid, and one broadsheet.
Introduction There are many different newspapers. They range from tabloid papers to the broadsheet papers. The tabloids are a lighter read which may be using short words to the more involving complicated and longer words which might be in broadsheet papers. Different newspapers are written to suit different types of people e.g. Teachers, Doctors, Business People unemployed, labourers etc. First I am going to collect data on number of letter per word and sentences in two different newspapers. I am also going to present data in a meaningful way. Finally I am going to interpret and analyze results and diagrams. I am going to draw conclusions on analysis, state whether I accept or reject the prediction. If I reject the prediction then I need to make another one up because I will need at least 2 predictions in this investigation to prove that I have understood. Aim Compare one broadsheet with one tabloid. Comparison is by word length and sentence length. Prediction I predict that Broadsheet (The Times) will have longer words than Tabloid (The Mirror). I predict that Broadsheet (The Times) will have longer sentences than Tabloid (The Mirror). Broadsheet newspaper is for business people, doctor, teachers etc so more complicated and longer words are used. Because the broadsheet has longer words it will have short sentences so longer the words shorter the sentences.
Consumer responses to wine bottle back labels
Lockshin, Larry Unwin, Tim Source: Journal of Wine Research; Dec99, Vol. 10 Issue 3, p183, 13p, 5 charts Document Type: Article Subject Terms: *CONSUMER behavior *CONSUMERS -- Attitudes *WINE industry WINE labels NAICS/Industry Codes 42282 Wine and Distilled Alcoholic Beverage Wholesalers Abstract: Abstract This paper reports on an exploratory study of consumer responses to the information contained on wine bottle back labels. It was based on research conducted with respondents in Australia in early 1999. Its central findings were: (1) that experienced consumers have difficulty in matching the tastes of wines with their back label descriptions; (2) that 57% of the respondents claim regularly to read back labels in making their purchasing decisions; (3) that the information they found most useful in helping them to identify the wines was simple descriptions of the tastes or smells of the wines; and (4) that it is difficult to draw general conclusions about the effects of gender, age, income or occupation on such responses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] Full Text Word Count: 6158 ISSN: 0957-1264 Accession Number: 2791811 Persistent link to this record: http://search.epnet.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=cookie,ip,url,ui d&db=buh&an=2791811 Cut and Paste: <A href="http://search.epnet.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=cookie,ip,
Compare three different newspapers by using readability, the amount of space devoted to various sections, and the number of pages.
Mathematics Coursework - Statistics My objective is to compare three different newspapers by using the following information: > The readability in terms of standard of language evidenced in different newspapers. > The amount of space devoted to various sections such as Sport, news and business. > The number of pages, size and the cost of each of the three newspapers. > Another thing that I will look at is the average newspaper in terms of size and cost. The three newspapers that I will compare are: - > The Sunday Times, which is a Broadsheet newspaper sold right throughout the UK containing news from right across the UK. It is mostly read by a person with a high standard of language such as a businessman. People may also wish to read the advertisements for housing, recruitment and classified advertisements. There are pages in this newspaper. > The Western Mail, which is a Tabloid newspaper, containing national news. This is one of the most popular tabloid newspapers currently being sold. It contains news on a variety of current events with a focus on features and leisure. It is considered an interesting paper for the reader. There are 90 pages in this newspaper. > The Telegraph is a Broadsheet newspaper with news from all over the world. It is known for its well-written articles and opinions and its readership tends to be members of the professional and business
"THE TABLOID VERSUS THE BROADSHEET"AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE EDITORIAL AND PICTORIAL CONTENT OF THE DAILY MAIL AND THE GUARDIAN NEWSPAPERS
"THE TABLOID VERSUS THE BROADSHEET" AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE EDITORIAL AND PICTORIAL CONTENT OF THE DAILY MAIL AND THE GUARDIAN NEWSPAPERS . INTRODUCTION British newspapers fall loosely into two categories the tabloid (which is half the size of a broadsheet) and the broadsheet itself, with tabloid newspapers tending to be quite different from broadsheets in style and content as well as in size. The so-called intelligent media represented by the Independent and the Guardian seem to present problems to their readers and say 'here is an article, judge for yourself from the information and the informed journalists that we offer.' Commentators such as the art critic Brian Sewell stated, "Opinion, as expressed by a rag is worthless" with Mark Thompson the Director of BBC Television, commenting, "I think people use the media in quite sophisticated ways. They might read a tabloid newspaper for fun but it doesn't mean they believe everything in it is true." If you look on a news-stand, the British national newspapers can be roughly divided as follows:- Broadsheet Tabloid The Guardian The Daily Mail The Independent The Express The Financial Times The Star The Telegraph The Sun The Times The Mirror The table shown above illustrates an example of a stratified sample. This type of sample is made up of different layers of the population (individuals or items) that
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In this coursework, I will be selecting three newspapers. One will be a tabloid newspaper, another will be a broadsheet newspaper and my last newspaper will be one which is a mixture of both. I intend to make several comparisons between these three types of newspapers. The newspapers I have chosen to use are the 'The Sun' as my tabloid newspaper, the 'Evening Standard' as my broadsheet newspaper and 'Daily Mail' as the paper in between. For my investigation, I wish to investigate which newspaper is easier to read in comparison to each other. I will conduct my investigation by finding out which newspaper has longer or shorter words and sentences. This is because shorter words and sentences are easier to read than longer words and sentences. The following are the questions which I will be answering to complete my investigation; ) Which newspaper has more letters in a word? 2) Which newspaper has more words in a sentence? My hypothesis is that The Sun, the tabloid, will have fewer letters in a word compared to the Daily Mail which in turn would have fewer letters in a word than the broadsheet newspaper, Evening Standard. I also predict that The Sun will have fewer words in a sentence compared to the Daily Mail which in turn would have fewer words per sentence than the Evening Standard. The reasons for my predictions are that tabloids, such as The Sun, are read by