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I think this is part of a trend on HN called "defining clickbait down." Clickbait is deliberately withholding information or writing a headline in such a way as
by cwyers 9y ago
I think this is part of a trend on HN called "defining clickbait down." Clickbait is deliberately withholding information or writing a headline in such a way as to prompt a click to figure out what the article is about. "10 Celebrities You Never Knew Were Gay, #8 Will Surprise You!" And at least one of the celebrities is Ellen DeGeneres. "You Won't Believe What Happens When This Homeless Man Doesn't Have Money For Food!" Someone buys him lunch. That's clickbait. The title to this is just a title. It's not clickbait.
- soared 9y agoI'd add to your definition and include anytime an author adds a buzzword that is irrelevant or not mentioned in the article. Then OP's claim that this is clickbait would be true - its for statistics and not big data. So "How to Call B.S. On Big Data: A Practical Guide" is clickbait, but "How to Call B.S. On Statistical Claims: A Practical Guide" is not.
- cwyers 9y agoI disagree with this definition, and even if I did agree I think this doesn't describe the article. As just one example: > Beware of Big Data hubris. TheGoogle Flu Trends project, which claimed, with much fanfare, to anticipate seasonal flu outbreaks by tracking user searches for flu-related terms, proved to be a less reliable predictor of outbreaks than a simple model of local temperatures. (One problem was that Google’s algorithm was hoodwinked by meaningless correlations—between flu outbreaks and high-school basketball seasons, for example, both of which occur in winter.) Like all data-based claims, if an algorithm’s abilities sound too good to be true, they probably are. If that's not a claim about Big Data, then what is?
- ouid 9y agoClickbait is whenever your title has less information than your article.
- dredmorbius 9y agoClickbait is deceptively framing an piece (article, video, audio) through description and/or graphics to create an anticipation or misunderstanding, deliberately. Mischaracterising a story about A to be about some topical interest B would fall into that category. Among the more annoying forms (one I disagreed with dang on a couple of days ago) is using a deliberately vague title (the book by the author in this case was far more clearly described). One I particularly dislike is using more words to not tell you what something is about than what actually telling you what it was about would have required. Any title telling me how I should feel or respond also gets an automatic flag: "Shocking..." "You will..." "You won't...", etc. Fuck you and stop telling me what to do.