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A cool guide of commonly believed myths (i.redd.it)

submitted 1 week ago by ooli to c/coolguides

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

aside from the issues that other commenters have addressed, I think the titles are too short to accurately describe the subject matter

I can see what they were going for but the titles do not match the paragraphs well enough for me

misleading titles, for things presented as myths, (with corrections in parenthesis):

Multiple personalities (exists as MPD)
The Vomitorium (exists)
Black holes (exists)
Different tongue parts (exists)
Left & right brain (exists)
Evolution is a 'theory' (true)

I'd write these as:

Schizophrenia does/should not mean multiple personalities
People did not vomit in vomitoriums
Black holes are not literal holes*
The tongue does not taste in distinct places
Both brain hemispheres can learn the same functions/talents
Evolution matches our current data the best; scientific theories are not just conjecture**

*I don't think this is really correct either, but that is an issue outside of the scope of just the titles

**I am not too confident on this rewrite, I'm not sure I could make it short and have good quality, but you could go with either side of the semicolon for a shorter single title

There were other issues I had with the titles, but I felt that I was too unsure about them to present them here