Hacker News Reader

Please don't editorialize titles. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Submitted title was "Richest people in US andUK live 7-9 years longer without disability than poorest".

You've inverted the meaning though. Actual title is "Socioeconomic Inequalities in Disability-free Life Expectancy in Older People from England and the United States", which may be too long for HN, but presents a very different impression of what the study may be about.

Perhaps "Socioeconomic Inequalities in Disability-free Life Expectancy in Older People in US and UK" would be better?

HN's title limit is 80 chars, but I've taken the largest prefix of that. Thanks!

We don't have time to look closely enough at every article to gauge this sort of thing, but are always happy when readers do.

Point taken. But the current title is misleading and rather vague, besides omitting the real focus of the paper. Better: >Socioeconomic Inequalities in Disability-free Life Expectancy in Older People

Reply on news.ycombinator.com