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Looks boring, won't click Fun fact: https://medium.com/i-data/29-reasons-youre-reading-this-article-fbf4671327e3 https://medium.com/i-data/29-reasons-youre-re

by gohrt 10y ago

Looks boring, won't click Fun fact: https://medium.com/i-data/29-reasons-youre-reading-this-article-fbf4671327e3 https://medium.com/i-data/29-reasons-youre-reading-this-arti... "29 reasons you’re reading this article or why odd-length BuzzFeed listicles perform better than even ones"

wldcordeiro 10y ago
Seems like a similar thing to what goes behind pricing something as 1.99 instead of 2.00
goodJobWalrus 10y ago
> Looking at ten thousand published BuzzFeed listicles over a period of three months I found a statistically significant difference in the performance of odd-length listicles compared to even ones. They published at least 10,000 listicles in 3 months! now, that is what I call a soul-crushing job (writing those articles)