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Examples of very bad titles and/or subtitles for a book

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I hope your book doesn't include any apostrophe-infected plurals.

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Pooh gets stuck 😆

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There are many questions I could live my whole life without knowing the answer to.

This sort of stuff involves some of the more shady hallways of the internet. I have no doubt that those interested could find much more than they wanted to know too.

As I heard somewhere else, this is not for children, adults, or childish adults.

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The post that was quoted here has been removed
My above misedit:
"susters" should be "sisters"

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Tell us more about your book?

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@divegeester said
Tell us more about your book?
It took me about 6 years to write from the 6-year long research I was doing and I wrote it intermittently as I went along doing my research rather than wrote it all at once.
I now plan to self-publish it on Amazon.
My main motivation for writing my book is to just get my discoveries known and not for profit, which is just as well I don't expect to make much money from it as I don't expect its sales to be all that impressive but, who knows!

Its title, if you are wondering, is;

Tavology
by J.Tilk

and it has a very long subtitle many elements of which I have copied and pasted and adapted below esp. for this post.

It is mainly but not only about a new branch of mathematics I invented called 'tavology' which is a new branch of statistics that will revolutionize statistical analysis especially of scientific data.

However, although the main subject matter of this book is tavology, what would likely be of much more interest to most readers is that it also discuses several other subject matters of much more philosophical interest including several logical paradoxes and problems, such as the old cosmological fine-tuning problem along with my newly proposed solution, but also some newly defined ones such as what is called the 'below-median paradox', along with my proposed solutions.

As for the parts of the book that are more relevant to tavology, the book also explains;

1, A huge list of completely newly described maths equations I invented as well as what I have named the 'one-arg zerc function' which defines the newly described maths constants I defined called the 'zerc constants'.

2, Several completely newly described laws of statistics I discovered.

3, My proof of how the old conventional said maths solution for the statistical
problem conventional called the 'German tank problem' is WRONG!

4, The correct maths solution to the German tank problem and how that correct maths solution has been thoroughly confirmed and proven correct beyond any doubt by numerous computer simulations using a computer algorithm fully explained in my book.

5, A new terminology to replace the badly flawed conventional terminology of statistics and also recommends and demonstrates a new protocol to name different kinds of probability and gives a list of different kinds of probability so named using this new naming protocol.

When I finally get my book published and thus made available, I will start a new thread about it and its various subject matters in the redhotpawn science forum.
But first I must publish it and that will take quite some time (I cannot hazard a guess of about how long) because I must make sure I do that exactly right else it would be a mess.

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@humy

Are you nuts?

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@earl-of-trumps said
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Are you nuts?
Is that a question to me or is that an example of a bad title for a book?
Actually, I think that might be an example of a GOOD title for a book! -especially if its a book about psychiatry.
Perhaps it could have a title and subtitle something like;

Are you nuts!?
A layperson's guide of how to avoid delusional self-denial and recognize when you need to see a psychiatrist.

Or, what about this, and this could be a title and subtitle for book for a subject matter I once seriously considered writing a whole book about;

Are you nuts!? by J Tilk.
Why sending people to Mars is an extremely bad idea.

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If you spend too long looking at statistics you will decide that playing basketball makes you taller.

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@the-gravedigger said
If you spend too long looking at statistics you will decide that playing basketball makes you taller.
That means, because I am happy with my current height and don't won't to be taller, I better not play basketball.

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@earl-of-trumps said
@humy

Are you nuts?
That's rhetorical...right?

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@great-big-stees said
That's rhetorical...right?
Of course it is obvious he is short a few cards! 😉

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@suzianne said
There are many questions I could live my whole life without knowing the answer to.

This sort of stuff involves some of the more shady hallways of the internet. I have no doubt that those interested could find much more than they wanted to know too.

As I heard somewhere else, this is not for children, adults, or childish adults.
I am sure it will get removed!

-VR

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@humy said
It took me about 6 years to write from the 6-year long research I was doing and I wrote it intermittently as I went along doing my research rather than wrote it all at once.
I now plan to self-publish it on Amazon.
My main motivation for writing my book is to just get my discoveries known and not for profit, which is just as well I don't expect to make much money from it as I ...[text shortened]... a guess of about how long) because I must make sure I do that exactly right else it would be a mess.
will there be peer review of yer research, theories, and conclusions?

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