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Comparing Broadsheet and Tabloid Newspapers  

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Investigate the hypothesis: people who read broadsheet newspapers are more intelligent than people who read tabloids. To do this I will break my investigation up into three parts: * The general belief is that broadsheet newspapers such as 'The Times' are aimed at the higher earning. More intelligent reader and so, you would expect a higher quality of English used, therefore longer words and sentences. Tabloid newspapers are supposedly aimed at the lower earning, less intelligent reader and so the quality of English used wouldn't be as good as that found in a broadsheet, so the length of words and sentences one would assume would be smaller. To find out whether this is true I will count Roughly 200 words from each paper, 80 words taken from the same news story, 60 from the same sports report and 60 taken from the general section of the newspaper. I will do this...

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