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Yeah, because if you had the name you'd have no further questions. There's just no way to condense enough important information into the headline, and the chem
by kadoban 3y ago
Yeah, because if you had the name you'd have no further questions.
There's just no way to condense enough important information into the headline, and the chemical name would mean nothing for 99% of people.
- croes 3y agoIf I already know TCE is dangerous and need to be avoided I might not need to read the article or I could if I need further information. But if I need to click to get the basic information it's clickbait.
- j45 3y agoCould the article be primarily written for people who don’t know about TCE?
- croes 3y agoThey would read it if TCE is in the title. But so all are forced to read it because Parkinson concerns everybody. Why not simply "Widely used TCE strongly linked to Parkinson's disease" Key message in the title, further information in the article.
- bumby 3y agoBut it’s not written for you specifically. Since this is related to a Marine base, I’ll give you an example. What if the headline was “2/4 gets new Bradleys” To a Marine, it’s a clear headline: 2nd Battalion 4th Marine Regiment gets new armored personnel carriers”. But to a laymen a better headline would be “Marine unit gets new Tanks.” The former would be almost deliberately meaningless to a casual reader.
- kadoban 3y ago> If I already know TCE is dangerous and need to be avoided I might not need to read the article or I could if I need further information. But, you don't know that, right? How many people would? 1% has to be a vast overestimate. What exactly are we optimizing for, saving a tiny minority from having to click once and read a single sentence? It seems like "clickbait" has morphed into "any headline that does not make its associated article completely redundant".
- is_true 3y agoIf you have the name you can start searching for things that has it right away.
- whoopdedo 3y agoSo instead they use wording that means nothing to 100% of people and require anyone to click through to the article to discover what they're talking about.