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Maths Coursework: Handling Data

Pre Test:

I am going to collect data from three different newspapers. I will do so by using selective sampling. I will take every tenth word until I have a pre test sample of a hundred words. This strategy will enable me to avoid a biased outcome.

The newspapers I have selected are from three major categories in newspaper styles and readabilities. They, along with the newspapers, are:

Popular- The Sun

Quality- Daily Mail

Compact- Independent.

Hypothesis:

My hypothesis is that there is, and hopefully will be, a clear difference in the readability and styles of the three papers. I believe that the compact papers’ average word length will be longer than both the popular and quality papers’ average. I also expect the compact paper to have a larger mode, median and range.

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Analysis of word length:

Daily Mail:

         

Mean= Total of Fx ÷ Total of Frequency

Mean= 440÷100

Mean=4.4 words

Range= largest length of word- shortest length of word

Range= 11-1

Range=10

Mode= most occurring length of word

Mode= 4

Median= 3.2 (shown by cumulative frequency graph later on)

Independent:

Mean= Total of Fx ÷ Total of Frequency

Mean= 415÷100

Mean=4.15 words

Range= largest length of word- shortest length of word

Range= 9-1

Range=8

Mode= most occurring length of word

Mode= 2 and 3

Median= 3.2 (shown by cumulative frequency graph later ...

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