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Compare mass-appeal tabloid newspapers and quality newspapers by attempting to find statistical differences.
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GCSE Statistics Coursework Aims of the project I aim to compare mass-appeal tabloid newspapers and quality newspapers by attempting to find statistical differences. To represent the mass-appeal papers, I chose the Daily Mirror and for the text-quality based newspapers, I chose the Times. Hopefully, there will be some significant statistical differences in the style of journalism which I will be able to comment on. Pre-Test Data Collection: I decided to choose similar pages from both the Times and the Mirror with roughly equal numbers of paragraphs and adverts, pages 4-5, or 4-6, as in the Mirror there were not enough sentences to take samples from. To find mean sentence lengths in the two papers, I decided I would sample systematically from my populations, counting the number of words in every 3rd sentence. I came up on several problems quickly - should I include headlines in my count? I decided against it, as headlines tend...
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