{"id":13596,"date":"2020-12-01T19:51:40","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T19:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/measuringu.com\/rating-scale-best-practices-8-topics-examined-copy\/"},"modified":"2022-11-11T16:18:59","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T23:18:59","slug":"change-verbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/measuringu.com\/change-verbs\/","title":{"rendered":"From Soared to Plummeted: Can We Quantify Change Verbs?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\"\"<\/a>Cases spike, home prices surge, and stock prices tank: we read headlines like these daily. But what is a spike<\/em> and how much is a surge<\/em>? When does something crater<\/em> versus tank<\/em> or just fall<\/em>?<\/p>

Headlines are meant to grab our attention<\/a>. They often communicate the dramatic story the author wants to tell rather than what the data say.<\/p>

It isn\u2019t easy to write headlines.<\/p>

The Columbia Journalism Review<\/a> regularly collects ambiguous headlines, such as these from 2018:<\/p>