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(submitter) The actual title is "Humans display a reduced set of consistent behavioral phenotypes in dyadic games". I shortened it to fit and replaced dyadic w

• gnulinux 6y ago
  Tangential question: Not a native speaker but wouldn't "only a few" make more sense than "a few"? The paper title emphasizes the lack of great variety, as does "only a few", but without any more context "a few [...] phenotypes" could also mean "more phenotypes than anticipated"?
  • eximius 6y ago
    'a few' is fairly neutral to expectations and more speaks to the absolute number - of which 4 is 'a few'. If the author wanted to emphasize that this was fewer than expected, 'only a few' would have been appropriate - but this might not have been their intent.
  • tjalfi 6y ago
    (submitter) The title is quite close to the 80 character limit. I started with "only a few" but had to cut "only" after I replaced dyadic with two player. "dyadic" seemed too obscure to use in a HN title.