Reliability Task

Reliability:

Task: how could you collect reliable data on the following topics:

• Editor’s letter in women’s and men’s magazines
• Brian Cox’s tweets
• Michael Gove’s comments on education

If I was looking at an Editor’s letter in women’s and men’s magazines I would collect the same amount of each data, for example two men’s magazines and two women’s magazines. I would compare the two men’s editors’ letters from the magazine and then compare the two women’s magazines. In my comparison I would pick out the lexis used and how it is similar or different in the magazines, depending on the gender it is aimed at. 

While looking at Brian Cox’s tweet I would choose a few tweets, maybe every five from the past week. This would be not too much data and there would be a fair selection of tweets, they would range from different days, meaning different moods or behaviour over the period of time. This would be better as you can analyse what you need to. 

If I had to find reliable data about Michael Gove’s comments on education, I would find a number of interviews or transcripts of his comments and then I would try and apply the way he talks to any theories.