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Thanks for replying Dan. The original title, specifically the inclusion of 'Remarkable' instead of giving the numbers/terms of the article, seemed like click-ba

Thanks for replying Dan. The original title, specifically the inclusion of 'Remarkable' instead of giving the numbers/terms of the article, seemed like click-bait to me. This is the relevant part of the article: > In 1950, women were having an average of 4.7 children in their lifetime. The fertility rate all but halved to 2.4 children per woman by last year.

Nomentatus 8y ago
"Remarkable" does not mean extraordinary, it means worth remarking upon. Hence the old saw in Philosophy: "No remark without remarkableness." There is a connotation of surprise, in addition, but surely surprise is warranted. I am very willing to believe that there's some difference in usage on different sides of the Atlantic, but doubt that difference is extreme, in fact it may not even be remarkable. Note that the response you got was that others aren't reliable when extracting statistics from articles, so while you may be very reliable in this way, they can't trust users to do this and have had to draw a line. I too hate clickbait (unless it's a headline I wrote, of course) but "remarkable" doesn't trigger me.