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X could Y, in headlines, evaluated as a boolean would be interesting to get statistics on. Is it usually false, or an exaggeration meant to motivate further fu
by jjtheblunt 4y ago
X could Y, in headlines, evaluated as a boolean would be interesting to get statistics on.
Is it usually false, or an exaggeration meant to motivate further funding for something non-profitable?
- akomtu 4y ago"X as Y" is another boolean operator of pseudo-journalism, means two unrelated things stitched together to get more clicks.
- PhasmaFelis 4y agoLike how any development related to human prosthetics or exoskeletons gets compared to Iron Man since the 2008 movie.
- notacanofsoda 4y agoI'm partial to "X after Y" myself. Example: Stock market crashes after man eats a hot dog. Implying causation is great clickbait.
- dools 4y agoEspecially when Y is reporting by the same outlet. “Political result X happens after our media outlet revealed Y”
- EarlKing 4y agoDon't forget the popular "[<modal_verb>|'Is'|'Are'] X Y?" -- because Betteridge's Law of Headlines is almost invariably accurate.
- akomtu 4y agoThat's the equivalent of variable definition: var X = Y.
- quickthrower2 4y agoMen are XY
- jjtheblunt 4y agotrue, but you don't match the parent comment's implied regex!
- lebubule 4y agoWhile I would agree with you that media often phrase thing the mentioned way, I would prefer here to state that X implies Y. The question is more whether it will be picked up more widely at industry scale. We took great care to show real-world applicability of our work.
- jjtheblunt 4y agoright: it's diminishing the validity of the work, when some journalist's title looks click-bait-y, and that's just not appropriate.