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"women's brains"? Or was it just one lady? Come on journalism, be clear in your meaning.
by kagamine 10y ago
"women's brains"? Or was it just one lady? Come on journalism, be clear in your meaning.
- caminante 10y agoStop trolling. And they compared these women's brains with those of 19 first-time fathers, 17 men without children and 20 women who had never given birth.
- supergreg 10y agoIt would have been interesting to also compare women pregnant with their second child. Is this phenomenon only seen in first time mothers?
- feintruled 10y agoMight explain why the first child gets wrapped in cotton wool, and the second is allowed to juggle knives!
- manarth 10y agoI think kegamine is pointing to the grammatical oddity of using the singular "woman" in the title, rather than the plural "women": Pregnancy alters woman's brain The article introduction phrases this in a little more concise a way: Pregnancy reduces grey matter in specific parts of a woman's brain I can see how the introduction probably became contracted to form the title, but in the contracted version, the plural "Pregnancy alters women's brain" would seem a little more grammatically precise than "Pregnancy alters woman's brain".
- pc86 10y agoNot trying to split hairs but is the study statistically significant that they can safely generalize to all women? Regardless I think the phrase "some womens'" would have been better in the title.
- dang 10y ago> Stop trolling Whoa. That's uncivil and a borderline personal attack, which isn't allowed on HN. Please assume good faith when commenting here.
- caminante 10y agoYou're right, dang. I should've said, "The article [clarifies] that," or asked a question.
- kagamine 10y agoOn HN we frequently ask for titles to be altered for accuracy. I would expect a BBC journalist to understand the difference between singular and plural. "Woman's brain" and Women's brains" have different meanings, at least for this speaker of English.