An Experiment in Beer-tasting

Gardner, M.

doi:10.1111/j.1365-2923.1969.tb02083.x

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“…Humour is subjective, so classification here is prone to personal bias. The first title we classified as humorous was in 1967 ‘ An Experiment in Beer‐tasting ’ . However, Hartley highlights several problems with humour: it is cultural, can be difficult for non‐native speakers and may reduce search results, such as in the example above, which gives no clear pointers to the topic of the paper.…”

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“…The first title we classified as humorous was in 1967 'An Experiment in Beer-tasting'. 16 However, Hartley 11 highlights several problems with humour: it is cultural, can be difficult for non-native speakers and may reduce search results, such as in the example above, which gives no clear pointers to the topic of the paper. Another example 'This thorough, tedious, expensive and disappointing study.…”

Section: The Humorous Titlementioning

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What's in a name? Word inflation, punctuation, abbreviation and cloud formation

Schofield

2016

Medical Education

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The title of a journal paper offers a crucial portal into any scientific field. It determines whether interested readers locate the paper and whether others have enough interest sparked to lead them to read the abstract. This article looks at authored journal paper titles in Medical Education over its questions suggests that these journal article authors are considering papers to be selected by the human rather than just the virtual eye. We also hypothesise the use of humour may indicate a maturation of medical education as a subject.

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Section: The Humorous Titlementioning

confidence: 99%