Read All About It
st Hypothesis HYPOTHESIS: Broadsheets have longer words than tabloids and are therefore harder to read. I have chosen a hypothesis, which I will use to compare 2 different newspapers, one Tabloid, one Broadsheet (both from the same day, so as to avoid bias), and I will use a stratified sample of articles from different sections of the newspapers. Tabloid newspapers are aimed towards young adults and older teenagers, whereas broadsheets are aimed generally towards older people (40's or older). I chose this hypothesis because I asked 50 of my friends whether they like reading Tabloids or Broadsheets more. 41 people said they preferred reading Tabloids, while the other 9 stated they like reading Broadsheets. Then I chose this hypothesis to expand further on it and to see whether longer words were the reason why less people read broadsheets - because they are harder to read. Plan To select the words, I will use stratified sampling. I am using stratified sampling as it shows an overall representation of the whole population - i.e. if "Section A" is bigger than Section B, and I am taking data from both, I will take more data from Section A, so that I get an overall representation of the population, where the data taken is proportional to the size of each section. Stratified sampling is a fair way of representing the whole population. I will choose articles to use from each
'Read All About It'
GCSE Mathematics 'Read All About It' Introduction In this coursework I will compare, two articles from two different newspapers and then draw some conclusions form the results. The two articles I intend to compare relate to the recent event concerning, Mr Blunkett. One is from the Manchester Evening News (tabloid), and the other is The Sun (broadsheet). I chose this story because it was one of the hottest topics on the newspapers at the moment. I will be comparing word lengths, using 100 words from each article. People tend to think that tabloids are easier to read and express things in much simpler terms than broadsheets. This observation then leads me to the following hypothesis: Hypothesis: The tabloid (M.E.N) will contain shorter words than the broadsheet (The Sun) Pre-Test To prevent any problems from occurring during my experiment, I am going to do a pre-test that will involve me counting the lengths of 50 words from the Burnley Express, that is nothing to do with my experiment later on. Pre-Test Results Word Length Tally Total 5 2 0 3 6 4 7 5 9 6 4 7 4 8 9 0 1 2 0 3 During the pre-test many problems occurred, and these will need to be accounted for before I begin my experiment. The problems are: * Punctuation * Names appearing in text * Headlines and Sub-headlines * Hyphenated Words * Numbers included The Experiment In this
Read All About It
Read All About It Suresh is comparing magazines and newspapers. He chooses a passage from one newspaper and one magazine. They each contain 100 words and he counts the lengths of all the words. Suresh then says that the magazine has the shortest words. Write a hypothesis about the length of words in newspapers and magazines. Design and carry out an investigation to test your hypothesis. Investigate further. Introduction Suresh's hypothesis seemed to me at first to sound quite correct, that words in magazines would be shorter than those in newspapers. But then I realised that this was taking for granted that the newspaper would in a way be more 'serious' than a magazine, as my first thoughts on a magazine were those that wrote about celebrities and contained a lot of photographs. However, I do not think that this generalisation would hold with all magazines and newspapers, for instance, if I was to compare a magazine such as "Sight and Sound" which is a magazine about films, but one that examines films in quite an in-depth way, having interviews and articles on 'art-house' films for instance - with a newspaper like "The Daily Sport", aimed at men who prefer titillation to topical news stories, then I believed that Suresh's hypothesis may be proved wrong. As there is an enormous variety of magazines in the shops I tried to figure out a way of narrowing down the
READ ALL ABOUT IT
READ ALL ABOUT IT HYPOTHESIS The Guardian newspaper will use longer words per sentence than The Sun newspaper. I think this because The Guardian is aimed at a section of society that is supposedly more educated and section a section of the higher employed section of society i.e. Company Directors, Stockbrokers etc and will use longer more obscure words that The Sun readers will not understand as it is aimed at a lower less educated section of the population. COLLECTING RESULTS I will use a sample of 100 words taken from each article, omitting any words that are the same in each paper, such as place names and names of people as these are spelt the same no matter which paper they appear in. EXTENSION HYPOTHESIS I predict that The Guardian newspaper will have the larger number of words per sentence than The Sun newspaper. I also predict that The Guardian will have a larger reading age than The Sun newspaper. COLLECTING RESULTS TALLY CHART FOR THE NUMBER OF LETTERS PER WORD IN THE GUARDIAN NEWSPAPER Number or letters Tally Frequency 6 2 9 3 8 4 23 5 9 6 0 7 0 8 5 9 5 0 2 1 3 2 0 TOTAL 00 TALLY CHART FOR THE NUMBER OF LETTERS PER WORD IN THE SUN NEWSPAPER Number or letters Tally Frequency 4 2 9 3 21 4 21 5 8 6 9 7 2 8 5 9 4 0 2 1 3 2 2 TOTAL 00 AVERAGES THE SUN NEWSPAPER Number of letters per word Frequency
Sociology Coursework
Sociology Coursework - Chapter 1 Topic area: Stereotyping by Sexuality I have chosen this topic area because it is something which has had a lot of media attention. I personally do not know about the area in great detail so I would like to learn more. It is a relatively taboo subject, not spoken or thought about out rightly by many people; therefore I would collate some very individual and new information from different types of people. There are many areas of my topic which people will be able to talk about within my investigation methods. Also, sexual stereotyping is something which I will be able to research fully and gain a lot of information about to fulfil my aims for my coursework. It will be possible to make the most of my subject area so as to complete the coursework to the best of my ability. Sexual stereotyping is an unexplored subject which I would love to venture into. My question: What are the attitudes differences between ages and sexes of people towards homosexuality? From this question I will be able to investigate and research many different kinds of people and their attitudes towards homosexuality therefore giving me a good amount of information. In this question I will try and focus on the differences in attitude between age groups and sex towards homosexuality. This will give me a wide range of people to try and interview and give questionnaires to
Parachute Investigation
Parachute Investigation Task To investigate the decent rate of a parachute dropped from various heights, other variables could be - * Weight * Shape of canopy * Weather - temperature, wind * Released from hands or thrown into the air * Strings * Material * Surface area Method To be able to keep it a fair test I needed to use the same parachute all the time also the weight had to be kept the same at all time. I assembled a few parachutes and investigated which material for the canopy would be most suitable, to perform the investigation, for instance different materials may be heavier than others and will descend much quicker making it hard to record the results, also different materials will have different air resistances making it hard again to record the results. I have now created the canopy using plastic as this is the most effective with a surface area of 38cm x 34.7cm = 1318.6cm . The size of the canopy is very important this determines how fast or slow the parachute will fall for example if the surface area was only 2cm x 2cm the parachute would fall very quickly as they is little air resistance to slow down the parachute. The size of the strings I decided to use is 4.30cm on which to attach the weight that will not be changed. The strings also play an important part of the rate of decent if the strings were too small the parachute would descend very
Number Grid
Friday 13th July 2007 Number Grid Coursework For this piece of coursework, I will investigate the difference when 2x2, 3x3, 4x4, 5x5 and rectangle snapshots are taken from a 10x10 number grid and have their corners multiplied and the difference worked out. For the first part, I will use 2x2 snapshots. 2x2 Boxes Box 1 2 3 2 3 2x13=26 --> 36-26=10 3x12=36 Box 2 32 33 42 43 32x43=1376 --> 1386-1376=10 33x42=1386 Box 3 6 7 6 7 6x17=102 --> 112-102=10 7x16=112 Box 4 5 6 5 6 5x16=80 --> 90-80=10 6x15=90 I have noticed the pattern here. Whenever the numbers are diagonally multiplied and then the difference is found, you always end up with 10. The hypothesis I am going to make is that if I was to work out the difference of another box taken from a 10x10 in a 2x2 snapshot, the difference I will find will be 10. Box 5 25 26 35 36 25x36=900 --> 910-900=10 26x35=910 My predictions that I made earlier about 'Box 5' have turned out to be correct as when I multiplied the numbers in the 2x2 box and worked out the difference, I was left with 10. I should now try the same method but with boxes of 3x3 dimensions. 3x3 Boxes Box 1 2 3 1 2 3 21 22 23 x23=23 --> 63-23=40 3x21=63 Box 2 33 34 35 43 44 45 53 54 55 33x55=1815 --> 1855-1815=40 35x53=1855 Box 3 4 5 6 24 25 26 34 35 36 4x36=504 --> 544-504=40 6x34=544 I
Newspaper Comparisons
Maths coursework on Statistics Newspaper Comparisons My Resources The resources I am using for this coursework are a tabloid paper, a broadsheet paper, the tabloid paper is called the "News of the World", and the broadsheet paper is called "The Sunday Telegraph". They both are the same dates and they both have the same stories/information in them. Aim / Hypothesis My aim is to take one 100-word article from a broadsheet newspaper and a tabloid newspaper and compare their readability by seeing how the sizes of the words vary. In addition, I will be comparing how many paragraphs there are on the front page of each newspaper and I will be comparing images per page up to five pages for both newspapers. These three factors can make an impact on the type of person reading a certain newspaper. My Objectives * To collect sufficient and reliable evidence for my results. * Present my data in a meaningful way. * To interpret and analyse results and diagrams. * To write a conclusion and analysis on the results I have acknowledged. Method I counted each letter in a word up to a 100 words and put my results in a tally. I then counted how many paragraphs there were in each article on the front page of each of the newspapers. In addition to this, I then made a tally of how many images there were on the first five pages of each newspaper. Then I compared the results I had
Obtaining Zinc Oxide from calamine.
Obtaining Zinc Oxide from calamine Theory Calamine is a mineral that contains Zinc Oxide. Its composition is quite complicated but it can be considered to contain zinc carbonate (ZnCO3). Upon heating it decomposes as follows: ZnCO3 ZnO + CO2 (C=12, O=16, Zn=65) The equation allows you to calculate a theoretical conversion of the calamine into zinc oxide but how close to this can be achieve in practice? In the chemistry industry they need to be able to calculate %yields in order to make sure that their processes are economical. Aim This Experiment will try to produce a conversion chart which will show how much zinc oxide can be made by experimenting by heating different masses of zinc carbonate. These thus can be compared to the theoretical values worked out from the equation. Prediction I predict that the results in the test will not match those in the theoretical results. They will be either a little above it due to the efficiency of the experiment. Plan Safety The safety factors in which we have to consider are the Bunsen Burner. We must also wear goggles at all times and must make sure not to pick up the mineral wool, as it is an irritant. Fair Testing In order this ensure that this experiment is accurate and fair, we need to take into consideration the factors effecting whether this experiment will be fair. The first concern is when burning
Emma’S Dilemma
EMMA'S DILEMMA I will now try some simple cases of rearranging letters to count the number of different combinations. TWO LETTER WORDS: AB BA CC THREE LETTER WORDS: ABC ACB BAC BCA CBA CAB ABB BAB BBA FOUR LETTER WORDS: CLUY CLYU CULY CYLU CYUL CUYL LUCY LYCU LCYU LCUY LUYC UYCL UYLC ULCY ULYC UCYL UCLY YCUL YCLU YLCU YLUC YUCL YULC AEMM AMME AMEM EMMA EAMM EMAM MEMA MEAM MMEA MMAE MAME MAEM RESULTS TABLE: NAME Number of different combinations CC AB 2 ABB 3 ABC 6 EMMA 2 LUCY 24 In my table I have spotted a pattern. The pattern is when a name has two letters the same it only has half the combinations of a name with all letters different. PREDICTION: I predict that if a word has 2 of the same letters then it has half the number of combinations than a word with the same amount of letters, of which all are different. I will now test my prediction on 2, five-letter words. I will use a five-letter word with two letters that are the same such as David. I will also use a five-letter word with all the letters different such as Craig. DAVID DAVDI DADIV DADVI DAIDV DAIVD DIAVD DIADV DIDAV DIDVA DIVDA DIVAD DVIAD DVIDA DVDIA DVDAI DVADI DVAID DDVAI DDVIA DDIVA DDIAV DDAIV DDAVI ADDVI ADDIV ADIVD ADIDV ADVDI ADVID AIDVD AIDDV AVDDI AVDID AVIDD AIVDD IAVDD IADVD IADDV IDADV IDAVD IDVAD