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Standard Reference Materials [video]
- thunderbong 4y agoThe title of the video is - "The world depends on a collection of strange items. They're not cheap"
- nayuki 4y agoThe current HN post title of "Standard Reference Materials" is accurate and neutral. Veritasium's title as you mentioned is clickbaity. Veritasium also admits to changing the title to test viewer responses, as mentioned in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2xHZPH5Sng https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2xHZPH5Sng "Clickbait is Unreasonably Effective" [2021-08-17]. He also explains the problem with titling a video with a term that you would only understand after watching the video.
- nayuki 4y agoOne of the previous titles for this video was "The US Government Sells Human Poop".
- WirelessGigabit 4y agoI actually have a big problem with the fact that their peanut butter contains sugar! It's not needed. Already WAY too much sugar in our diet!
- kelseyfrog 4y agoYour opinion might change if you reframe SRMs as descriptive, not prescriptive.
- fuzzfactor 4y agoI must say, I think it's great to have laboratory results traceable to NIST.