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Why is the fact that the person is Spanish relevant enough to merit being included in the headline?

martinclayton 3y ago
I think it's just a headline writer thing. Searching for "astronomer discovers" it appears there's often an "extra" word. When it's a plurality of astronomers doing the discovering, less so.
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- hsjqllzlfkf 3y ago
  Somehow I don't think they would've written the headline "american astronomer discovers..." If the person had been american. To me it kind of seems like "oh look Spanish people trying to do science, so cute".
  - doctor_eval 3y ago
    They would probably write “Illinois astronomer discovers”.
  - foobarian 3y ago
    It’s an entropy thing. You don’t write the sun rose in the east, but if it rose in the west that would contain more information.
  - BeetleB 3y ago
    I think if an American discovered it, and you were reading a Spanish news site (originating from Spain, targeting Spanish citizens), it would not surprise me if the title were "American astronomer discovers ..."
    - anthk 3y ago
      We usually just remark 'from the NASA', is not even needed to put "American". NASA it's worldwide known.
      - BeetleB 3y ago
        Yeah, but it likely wouldn't be one from NASA. Plenty (most?) astronomy research is done outside of NASA.
  - anthk 3y ago
    Spaniard here. I think you are the one with prejudices, not the OP. Thinking that of Spaniards when we were behind the first steps of CRISPR, having an astronomical observatory in Tenerife, making crazy revolutionary surgery on transplants in Valencia (and so on), that's a non-issue for actual scientific environments where they are more than aware on our skills. HN it's mainly a US site, OFC it adds information to the news by pointing that an Spaniard did it. By just putting the surname of the author of the discovery, he might seem to be from any point at the US Southern to the Patagonia in Argentina or the Iberian peninsula.
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I think it's just a headline writer thing. Searching for "astronomer discovers" it appears there's often an "extra" word. When it's a plurality of astronomers doing the discovering, less so.

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hsjqllzlfkf 3y ago
Somehow I don't think they would've written the headline "american astronomer discovers..." If the person had been american. To me it kind of seems like "oh look Spanish people trying to do science, so cute".
- doctor_eval 3y ago
  They would probably write “Illinois astronomer discovers”.
- foobarian 3y ago
  It’s an entropy thing. You don’t write the sun rose in the east, but if it rose in the west that would contain more information.
- BeetleB 3y ago
  I think if an American discovered it, and you were reading a Spanish news site (originating from Spain, targeting Spanish citizens), it would not surprise me if the title were "American astronomer discovers ..."
  - anthk 3y ago
    We usually just remark 'from the NASA', is not even needed to put "American". NASA it's worldwide known.
    - BeetleB 3y ago
      Yeah, but it likely wouldn't be one from NASA. Plenty (most?) astronomy research is done outside of NASA.
- anthk 3y ago
  Spaniard here. I think you are the one with prejudices, not the OP. Thinking that of Spaniards when we were behind the first steps of CRISPR, having an astronomical observatory in Tenerife, making crazy revolutionary surgery on transplants in Valencia (and so on), that's a non-issue for actual scientific environments where they are more than aware on our skills. HN it's mainly a US site, OFC it adds information to the news by pointing that an Spaniard did it. By just putting the surname of the author of the discovery, he might seem to be from any point at the US Southern to the Patagonia in Argentina or the Iberian peninsula.

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