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What a terribly ambiguous title. "Failing grades soar after xyz" makes it sound like xyz has helped what were previously terrible, failing grades become good on
by loneboat 4mo ago
What a terribly ambiguous title. "Failing grades soar after xyz" makes it sound like xyz has helped what were previously terrible, failing grades become good ones.
- christophilus 4mo agoFailing news headlines soar after AI takes over reporters jobs.
- rogerrogerr 4mo ago*quietly takes over reporters’ jobs
- devdp430 4mo agoPrecise.
- tomjakubowski 4mo agogenerally an editor writes the headline, not the reporter
- userbinator 4mo agoI suspect the ambiguity might be part of making it "clickbaity", as it naturally causes you to wonder which meaning it's about and become more interested in reading.
- quietbritishjim 4mo agoNo matter how many times I read it, I can't interpret it the way you're suggesting. "x soars after y" always reads as "x increases a lot because of y". I don't really get what you're saying. Are you maybe saying that "soars" might mean "get better", so "failing grades soar" might mean there are actually less failing grades? That's not how I've ever understood that word.
- stavros 4mo ago"Falling" means that something goes towards the earth. "Soaring" means the opposite. "Grades soar" means that grades went up "Falling grades means that grades are going down". "Falling grades soar" is just meaningless writing.
- jcranmer 4mo agoThe title is "failing grades soar" (one 'l', not two), not "falling grades soar."
- loneboat 4mo agoImagine an elementary school teacher told you that many of her students had failing grades, so she had implemented a new reading curriculum. If she told you that afterwards the failing grades had "soared", it could easily be read either way: - The (previously failing) grades had increased, so the program must be working very well. - The percent of grades that count as failing had increased, so the program must actually be terrible.
- littlexsparkee 4mo agoIt's not the best phrasing but it's still quite clearly the latter
- loneboat 4mo agoYeah, it was quite clear once I started reading the article. It just threw me for a loop as I read the title - Usually if I hear of grades "soaring" that's a _good_ thing.