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Even if mathematicians were literally or figuratively stunned by the headline, it's a clickbait headline because it gives you no information about the content o
by x1798DE 10y ago
Even if mathematicians were literally or figuratively stunned by the headline, it's a clickbait headline because it gives you no information about the content of the article, while trying to entice you to click through and read it with a big claim.
Example:
Clickbait headline: "This underdog just won a major political office!"
Regular headline: "Truman defeats Dewey"
- jerf 10y agoIf you think about it, you'll realize that in order to phrase my post that way in the first place, I must already have thought that the headline was written in the form of clickbait, otherwise it makes no sense.