Comparing the Reading Level of Two Newspaper Articles
Introduction
I selected two articles from different newspapers - one from a
broadsheet (The Daily Telegraph) and another from a tabloid (The Sun).
Both articles are on the same topic. I am trying to find out which
article, if either, requires a higher reading age by working out which
tends to use longer words and longer sentences and, using these
measures, calculate the FOG reading ages.
Hypothesis 1: Word Length
Task
First, I am going to work out which article tends to use longer words.
Plan and Hypothesis
I am going to record the number of letters in each of the first 100
words in both articles. I will not count numbers written as figures as
words and I will ignore abbreviations like "e.g." and "etc." However,
I will count words with a hyphen between them as separate words. I
predict that the word lengths will be longer in the broadsheet as it
is a larger, more detailed and informative paper aimed at "upper
class" people who are considered to be better educated than the
generally "lower class" tabloid readers. I will record the results in
a tally chart and then transfer them to a comparative bar chart and a
cumulative frequency diagram. I will also take the mean of the grouped
data and use my results to compare the articles and test my
hypothesis.
Results
The results are recorded below.
Tally Chart: Broadsheet
No. of Letters per Word
Tally
Total
1
0
2
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14
3
IIIIIIII IIII IIII
19
4
IIIIIIII II
12
5
IIIIIIII IIII
15
6
IIIIIIII
10
7
IIIIIIII III
13
8
IIII
5
9
IIIIII
7
10
II
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