In an ideal world everyone would be completely scientifically literate and well read. In the real world we need to allow for people who don’t have the time or past education but who are interested and can get drawn in by simple titles on social media and manage to find articles that communicate science well enough to get them a foot in the door, hopefully to the point they then get into reading the actual papers. Someone could have linked the actual paper here. That title wouldn’t have drawn in newbies, it’s “Strings from almost nothing”. A novice to sciences would have little to perhaps zero idea what that means. At least this gives an idea, and it wasn’t really misleading in the way clickbait is, it was just shorthanded enough to make pedantic curmudgeons triggered enough to complain about it and rattle on with me in comments.
This is science. The title length should not be at all coerced by social media’s short attention spans or illiteracy.
In an ideal world everyone would be completely scientifically literate and well read. In the real world we need to allow for people who don’t have the time or past education but who are interested and can get drawn in by simple titles on social media and manage to find articles that communicate science well enough to get them a foot in the door, hopefully to the point they then get into reading the actual papers. Someone could have linked the actual paper here. That title wouldn’t have drawn in newbies, it’s “Strings from almost nothing”. A novice to sciences would have little to perhaps zero idea what that means. At least this gives an idea, and it wasn’t really misleading in the way clickbait is, it was just shorthanded enough to make pedantic curmudgeons triggered enough to complain about it and rattle on with me in comments.