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. 2013 Dec 20;3:3578. doi: 10.1038/srep03578

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Daily variation in the total number of words in each issue of the Financial Times between 2^nd January 2007 and 31^st December 2012. We find significant differences in the length of the Financial Times on different days of the week (median of the number of total words for the given weekday: Monday, 134768.5; Tuesday, 112279; Wednesday, 112536; Thursday, 116690; Friday, 111663; Saturday, 195492; χ² = 702.5324, df = 5, p < 0.001, Kruskal-Wallis rank sum test). Significantly longer issues are produced on Saturdays in comparison to the rest of the week (all Ws > 128,000, all ps < 0.001, pairwise Wilcoxon rank sum tests with Bonferroni corrected α = 0.0033), and issues on Mondays are significantly longer than issues on Tuesday to Friday (all Ws > 111,000, all ps < 0.001, pairwise Wilcoxon rank sum tests with Bonferroni corrected α = 0.0033). We find no evidence that the length of issues varies between Tuesday to Friday (all Ws < 100,000, all ps > 0.01, pairwise Wilcoxon rank sum tests with Bonferroni corrected α = 0.0033).