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Maybe a more apt title would be "An experimental autism treatment gave me my son back".
by franciscop 11y ago
Maybe a more apt title would be "An experimental autism treatment gave me my son back".
- nadezhda18 11y agoI agree with you... though it wouldn't be that dramatic and thus less clic-baitish.
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- duaneb 11y agoReally? Strikes me as equally dramatic: both are equally correct statements without added tone. I can understand preferring the glass half full, though.
- nadezhda18 11y agoGetting something back is positive, losing something is negative. Negative is obviously more dramatic than positive.
- duaneb 11y ago> Negative is obviously more dramatic than positive. I agree in the general case, but not everywhere. Shit like "Scientist cures cancer!" is equally dramatic and clickbaity in spite of being hugely positive.
- nadezhda18 11y agoI think you mix up dramatic and tabloid-ish
- tptacek 11y ago"Effective novel treatment has benefits for one patient" is a less interesting story than "Effective novel treatment has unexpected drawbacks for one patient". Benefits are exactly what every reader expects from an effective treatment.
- jordanlev 11y agoOr: "Sudden drastic change in personality took 5 years to adjust to; some things better, some worse"
- tangled_zans 11y agoYou need to make an app that re-names shitty click bait headlines in such way!
- SilasX 11y agoWell, there's a certain human component to reading the article and giving a more honest summary of it ... How about one where you see a list of links to articles with their original title, and then users of the site will read them and then submit better titles that you can read first? Oh wait, that's HN.
- cbhl 11y agoRather, you need to Make America Great Again and make sure it has a proper European-style social net so that News Editors and Journalists don't need to use click-bait headlines to put dinner on the table.
- emodendroket 11y agoYeah, tabloid journalism is unknown in Europe.
- pg_is_a_butt 11y ago8 crazy app ideas that will never get made!
- awinder 11y agoActually thought that one of the more interesting aspects of this story is the pure amount of opposing forces that the author went through, even to the point that he seemed non-committal on whether going through the therapy was a net benefit or negative. This is one of those articles where the meaning & feeling of it could never be expressed in a one-sentence title :-).
- fpgaminer 11y agoI believe the implication is that the original title is click-bait. I don't think that's the case. The article is a discussion of the unintended consequences of curing autism. The author, and I imagine most readers, assume that curing autism is an all around good thing and would enhance one's life. The author's experiences contradict that, and that's what the article is trying to communicate. So the title is appropriate for the content. "An experimental autism treatment gave me my son back" is heartwarming, for sure, but a completely expected outcome and contradicts the conclusion intended by the author. I was much more satisfied to have my assumptions challenged by the article, than to have my assumptions reinforced.
- dennisgorelik 11y agoOriginal headline is quite delicious [soundbite]. Your version is less catchy. Negative effect of a treatment is more interesting than positive effects.