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The title doesn't seem like clickbait to me. Seems pretty straightforward really. Now if they had written the second part of the title like, "You won't believe

The title doesn't seem like clickbait to me. Seems pretty straightforward really. Now if they had written the second part of the title like, "You won't believe what happened next!" that would be clickbait.

mgraczyk 4y ago
They could have said what happens next in just as many characters, but chose not to. I assume the reason is because fewer people would read the article in that case.
- toxicFork 4y ago
  That sounds like the opposite of click bait. Not revealing something that would make people have aversion. I don't know if it has a name.
  - tpoacher 4y ago
    It does. It's called clickbait. :p If you'd like to clearly differentiate it from a more stringent definition of clickbait, I guess one could call it clickbait by omission. It's like when you pretend to have thrown a nut to a squirrel, but in reality you just made a gesture. The squirrel will go look for the nut regardless. You not throwing a 'decoy' nut isn't the important part w.r.t. the desired outcome. You still 'baited' them.
  - knighthack 4y ago
    Clickbait is just as often about half-truths, or omissions. Anything that leads to a reader/viewer asking "Why?/What?", and which triggers the human curiosity that leads to a click - constitutes clickbait. Such content may later disappoint or cause annoyance to the reader/viewer; but they still clicked, which is all that matters.
- renonce 4y ago
  I would refer to Veritasium's opinion on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2xHZPH5Sng https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2xHZPH5Sng
  - chakhs 4y ago
    always failed to see how normalizing clickbaits is for the greater good. more like for better income, which I could understand
elzbardico 4y ago
"If you are a woman, learn this simple one trick that can land you a job in FAANG."
- yazzku 4y ago
  "Doctors are PUZZLED by this simple trick to land women in FAANG."
collegeburner 4y ago
tbh i got to the point of just assuming that unless someone intentionally writes a descriptive title it's clickbait. they could have put "masking voice gender in interviews showed no significant outcome change". if you aren't intentionally making the title maximally descriptive and information packed, just like any other good writing should be, i'm gonna say it's clickbait.
- eyelidlessness 4y ago
  > they could have put "masking voice gender in interviews showed no significant outcome change" They could have, but that’s background information supporting the article’s topic, not its findings. You and several others will walk away with that finding from their research, and I will walk away having read and understood the interest in better understanding how attrition affects outcomes. I wouldn’t have any clue that I could learn that from the title you suggest. If they’d tried to cram the point of interest I found into the title, it would be derided as editorializing. The title is probably the best they could do: we had a hypothesis. Implicit in that is some findings and some further line of questioning. Sure that’s “clickbait” in a literal sense, but it’s a title. If you could fit the article in the title you wouldn’t have a distinction between articles and titles. You’d have tweet. Just one. Choose your wording carefully!
- rhacker 4y ago
  star wars: the empire strikes back - and vader is luke's dad.
  - collegeburner 4y ago
    lmao this is obviously less applicable outside of factual articles.
totetsu 4y ago
We' did X to Y Is so common it must be in some clickbait 101 subreddit wiki

mgraczyk 4y ago

They could have said what happens next in just as many characters, but chose not to. I assume the reason is because fewer people would read the article in that case.

toxicFork 4y ago
That sounds like the opposite of click bait. Not revealing something that would make people have aversion. I don't know if it has a name.
- tpoacher 4y ago
  It does. It's called clickbait. :p If you'd like to clearly differentiate it from a more stringent definition of clickbait, I guess one could call it clickbait by omission. It's like when you pretend to have thrown a nut to a squirrel, but in reality you just made a gesture. The squirrel will go look for the nut regardless. You not throwing a 'decoy' nut isn't the important part w.r.t. the desired outcome. You still 'baited' them.
- knighthack 4y ago
  Clickbait is just as often about half-truths, or omissions. Anything that leads to a reader/viewer asking "Why?/What?", and which triggers the human curiosity that leads to a click - constitutes clickbait. Such content may later disappoint or cause annoyance to the reader/viewer; but they still clicked, which is all that matters.
renonce 4y ago
I would refer to Veritasium's opinion on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2xHZPH5Sng https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2xHZPH5Sng
- chakhs 4y ago
  always failed to see how normalizing clickbaits is for the greater good. more like for better income, which I could understand

elzbardico 4y ago

"If you are a woman, learn this simple one trick that can land you a job in FAANG."

yazzku 4y ago
"Doctors are PUZZLED by this simple trick to land women in FAANG."

collegeburner 4y ago

tbh i got to the point of just assuming that unless someone intentionally writes a descriptive title it's clickbait. they could have put "masking voice gender in interviews showed no significant outcome change". if you aren't intentionally making the title maximally descriptive and information packed, just like any other good writing should be, i'm gonna say it's clickbait.

eyelidlessness 4y ago
> they could have put "masking voice gender in interviews showed no significant outcome change" They could have, but that’s background information supporting the article’s topic, not its findings. You and several others will walk away with that finding from their research, and I will walk away having read and understood the interest in better understanding how attrition affects outcomes. I wouldn’t have any clue that I could learn that from the title you suggest. If they’d tried to cram the point of interest I found into the title, it would be derided as editorializing. The title is probably the best they could do: we had a hypothesis. Implicit in that is some findings and some further line of questioning. Sure that’s “clickbait” in a literal sense, but it’s a title. If you could fit the article in the title you wouldn’t have a distinction between articles and titles. You’d have tweet. Just one. Choose your wording carefully!
rhacker 4y ago
star wars: the empire strikes back - and vader is luke's dad.
- collegeburner 4y ago
  lmao this is obviously less applicable outside of factual articles.

totetsu 4y ago

We' did X to Y Is so common it must be in some clickbait 101 subreddit wiki