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Situation My father enjoys reading both sport and current affairs articles in the Independent newspaper. Although he enjoys both, he prefers to read the sport articles in the morning, as he says they are easier to read. His reasons for saying that is because he thinks the word lengths are shorter. I will carry out an investigation to determine whether word lengths are shorter in sports articles then they are in current affairs articles. Hypothesis The word length in sports articles is generally shorter then that in current affairs articles. Sampling It would be impossible for me to investigate every sport and current affairs article in the Independent due to the size of each section of the paper. Instead of doing this, I will take a sample of data from one article of each genre. Sampling is taking a small section of data to represent a larger body of information (population). There are two main types...

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