How can you call the guy a CS major? He was a grad student in psychology, right?
Pretty early in the article.
A better title would have been "New Student in APS debunks core finding in the field."
Should I emphasize that he lives in the UK?
"UK citizen debunks positive psychology"
Or should I emphasize the statehood of the person debunked?
"UK citizen debunks US professor with one neat trick"
Just trying to summarize the relevant parts of the story without clickbait -- which the article did pretty well I thought.
Using an irrelevant bit because it will get more clicks seems to fall under the "click bait" domain, especially when he was a grad from CS, not a current major.
Personally I would be more interested to know that it was a newbie student to an academic field debunked a core tenet. "New APP Students Debunks Core APP Finding" is much more interesting to me than a coincidence of the former academics pursuits with mine. It implies the question, "If a brand new student to the field saw this error so quickly, why didn't anyone else?"