- Most people who write top ten lists don’t have the proper expertise to rank what they’re ranking.
- The items on the top ten list are blatantly obvious and can be guessed easily.
- On the contrary, some top ten lists leave out important elements that everyone would expect.
- Or, some top ten lists are lists of personal preference rather than objective judgments.
- People leave some positions blank to fill in later, then forget to fill them in later.
- When people run out of top ten items, they start rephrasing previous items.
- Sometimes the same item appears twice, but worded differently.
- Top ten lists sometimes don’t even have ten items in them.
Top Ten List Fail
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Topic #195: Make a top ten list of the reasons why top ten lists are often so disappointing.