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'Broad-sheets are more difficult to read as tabloid newspapers' discuss.
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Alice Sancier 11F Maths Coursework: Statistics Different newspapers are written to suit different preferences. Tabloids are a lighter read whereas broad-sheets involve more 'serious' and detailed articles. My hypothesis is that broad-sheets are more difficult to read as tabloid newspapers summarise events using less profound wording, which makes articles more easily understood than broad-sheet articles. Tabloids also try to attract and hold the attention of the reader more. To see whether my hypothesis is true, I will have to compare statistically certain data between a broad-sheet newspaper and a tabloid newspaper concerning articles on similar topics and the size of certain varying texts. The difficulty of the reading can be measured by certain factors: word length, sentence length, paragraph length, article length, the time taken to read an article, area of article on page, area of headline on page etc... I have decided, for the experiment, I will compare word length- the amount of letters...
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