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Statistics Coursework Comparative Newspaper Project In this investigation I am going to look at the difference between two types of newspaper: tabloids, and broadsheets. I could compare the number of letters in a word, the proportion of text to images, or the perhaps the number of words with 3 or more syllables, but I have chosen to compare the lengths of sentences. This is because I think broadsheets will have longer sentences on average, as they are more 'intellectual' newspapers. They are not like tabloids that are easy to dip into for news for busy working class people, but are there specifically for people who want to, and have the time to, to read the news fully, and in more depth. In addition, this will not be too complicated to find out, as, for example, finding the proportion of text to images is more open to error. For this investigation I am going...

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