In: Statistics and Probability
which type of English word is longer:nouns, verbs or adjectives? Go to a book of at least 400 pages and turn to a random pages using the random numbers listed at the end of this paragraph. Go down the page until you come to a noun. Note its length (in a number of letters). Do this for 10 different nouns. Do the same for every 10 verbs and for 10 adjectives. Using .05 significance level, a) carry out an analysis of variance comparing the three types of words, b) figure a planned contrast of nouns versus verbs.
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