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Why do you think this is clickbait? The headline accurately describes the content of the article, which as far as I can tell accurately describes one result of
by burkaman 9y ago
Why do you think this is clickbait? The headline accurately describes the content of the article, which as far as I can tell accurately describes one result of this paper. Clickbait doesn't mean any interesting headline, it means a misleading and purely attention-grabbing headline.
- xamuel 9y agoIt's like if someone proved P=NP and the magazine title was: "Mathematicians Measure Difficulty Levels, Find They're Equal."
- l3k 9y agoMaybe I misread, but I feel like solving P=NP would be closer to solving the continuum hypothesis whereas the article describes solving a related problem which could have disproved the hypothesis should it have been found that the two sets were not equal.
- burkaman 9y agoThat's not a good headline, but it's not clickbait. If P vs. NP were a fairly obscure problem with little immediate impact outside of academia, that would be a fine layperson headline. What would you have titled this Quanta article?
- SilasX 9y agoClickbait refers to vague titles that also overhype the story. Your example, if anything, underhypes it.