Data Handling Project
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Data Handling Project I have investigated the word length of newspapers, to be able to make a conclusion on the type of reader. My investigation centers around the hypothesis, "More intelligent people read broadsheets." This statement is stereotypical, however to be able to prove that hypothesis, another hypothesis has to be proven; "Broadsheet newspapers have longer words than Tabloid newspapers." What I want to find out is the length of words in a Broadsheet newspaper and then the length of words in a Tabloid newspaper. For the hypothesis to be proved or disproved, there requires results and data, which must be collected and presented to show the hypothesis to be correct. I have also used other hypotheses, "Words in the News section of all newspapers, will have longer words than the other sections of that newspaper." I also will use the statement, "Broadsheets give a higher proportion of the newspaper...


