newspaper comparisons part 2/3

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The second set of articles which I will be comparing is about a kidnapped girl named Madeleine McCann. The Sun article is headed ‘This Is My Daughter…Not Madeleine’, the Daily Mail article is headed ‘No, She Isn’t Madeleine’ and the Evening Standard article is headed ‘Maddy Family’s Vow After Morocco Sighting Blow’. Below are the tally charts for my results from The Sun, the Daily Mail and the Evening Standard in their respective order.

Using the same method as before, I will make a table showing the averages for each of the newspaper articles.

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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 ...

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