Surely you’ve come across them while surfing the internet, in your social media feeds, in magazines or newspapers (for the younger readers: texts and images printed with ink on paper – was widely used in the pre-internet era): articles or blogposts that want to grab your attention by using some kind of number in the headline.

To point out just how irritating the abundance of the use of numbers has become by now, I’ve assembled some of the practices that cause irritation in a convenient list.

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