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Did anyone really read the title thinking that the article was about alkaline batteries? I think not. The title is not misleading. It's incomplete, as titles a
by flexie 5y ago
Did anyone really read the title thinking that the article was about alkaline batteries? I think not.
The title is not misleading. It's incomplete, as titles are by nature. Titles are not supposed to include all caveats and modifications. The title also doesn't say that the decline is measured in dollars. Probably the price has dropped much less or much more when measured in other currencies that have moved relative to the dollar. The title also doesn't mention whether it's adjusted for inflation. It also doesn't specify whether that's the price at the consumer level or the price paid by manufacturers. Whether it's when you buy the battery in America or somewhere else on the planet.
As long as a title doesn't deliberately seek to mislead, it's not misleading. The intended audience expected this to be about lithium ion batteries.
- teruakohatu 5y ago> Did anyone really read the title thinking that the article was about alkaline batteries? I think not. Lithium-Ion were not in widespread use 30 years ago. So if we are just considering the price of Lithium-Ion, that would be the price from the first commercial product, which I expect was expensive for the time (it dropped in price around 30% in just a few years). I read the title and thought it was battery capacity/$, not Lithium-Ion specifically.
- irrational 5y agoI did, mainly because alkaline batteries are the ones I use on a daily basis.
- tablespoon 5y ago> Did anyone really read the title thinking that the article was about alkaline batteries? I think not. I did. For me "battery" without any context or other modifiers means some kind of consumer alkaline battery.