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by lifeisstillgood 4830 days ago
I really don't want to come across as nit picky but is this one time when changing a linkbait headline to something more descriptive would help - on the iPhone this page did not render thE actual text for a full half hour (subjective) and I spent all that time with my brain whirring but not in gear - it was a little frustrating

A headline like "DVD Graphene sheets store charge super fast in lab" would have helped me shift the various articles into my own working memory whilst the page loaded.

Downvote with comments please

(And I seem to get the general idea that Graphene will be big, but this is unlikely to be the killer app)

2 comments

I agree with you, the title could have been a little more descriptive. I have seen the same video posted here and on Reddit multiple times in the past few months. Although I don't mind it being posted again, since there is always a group of people who haven't seen it, a descriptive title could have prevented me from getting overly interested about this.
This is the first time I've seen this argument against linkbait headlines, and I happen to like it a lot. I've never actually considered headlines from a psychological perspective.