In this set of articles, the Evening Standard has a higher median, mean and mode which mean that, on average, more letters per word than the other two newspapers.
Below is the bar chart comparing the length of words in The Sun, the Daily Mail and the Evening Standard.
The chart shows us that the Evening Standard newspaper has a higher skew than that of The Sun and the Daily Mail. This means that in these articles, the Evening Standard newspaper has on average, more letters per word.
I have noticed that this has happened in both of the article comparisons so far. This could mean that the Evening Standard contains more letters per word but as the third set of articles has not been compared, I cannot be sure.
Now I will work out the range, the interquartile range and the standard deviation for each of these articles.
The range for the Evening Standard is eleven, the Daily Mail’s range is eleven and The Sun’s range is ten
The IQR of the Evening Standard is 3.1
The IQR of the Daily Mail is 2.7
The IQR of The Sun is 2.8
From these box plots I can make probability statements such as
75% of all the words in all three newspapers are probably three or more letters long.
Using the formula , the standard deviation for The Sun is 2.35. The standard deviation for Daily Mail is 2.43 and the standard deviation of the Evening Standard is 2.73. Once again the Evening Standard has had the highest standard deviation.
The third set of articles which I will be comparing is about a football match. The Sun article is headed ‘Fergie In Fury At Cup Flops’, the Daily Mail article is headed ‘Fergie’s Fury’ and the Evening Standard article is headed ‘Ferguson Sees Red As His Kids Are Sent Packing By Mifsud’s Double’. Below are the tally charts for my results from The Sun, the Daily Mail and the Evening Standard in their respective order.
I will now make a table showing the averages for each of the newspaper articles.
The table shows that the Evening Standard has a higher value in all the averages than the Daily Mail and The Sun, except for the mode in which it shares the same result with the Daily Mail. This means that, on average, the Evening Standard has more letters per word in this set of articles in comparison to the other two newspapers.
Below is a bar chart comparing the length of words in the third set of articles.
For the third time, the Evening Standard has a higher skew compared to that of the Daily Mail and The Sun. This means that the Evening Standard has more letters per word.
This is the third and final set of articles which I am comparing. In each comparison I have noticed that the Evening Standard always has a higher number of letters in a word which therefore concludes my first question which I was to answer.
I will now work out the range, the interquartile range and the standard deviation for this set of articles.
The range of the Evening Standard is twelve, the range of the Daily Mail is eleven and the range of The Sun is ten.
IQR of Evening Standard is 3.6
IQR of Daily Mail is 3.5
IQR of The Sun is 3.2
Looking at these box plots I can say that only 25% of the words in The Sun are 6 letters long or more.
The standard deviation of The Sun is 2.27 and the standard deviation of Daily Mail is 2.70. The standard deviation of the Evening Standard is 2.59. The Evening Standard has had the highest standard deviation in each of the articles compared, so therefore, the Evening Standard has the highest spread.
Next part is newspaper comparison part 3/3