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Unlike most Top 10 lists that are deliberately designed with unexpected choices for shock value, the paper cites exactly how the 10 were chosen and attempts to justify why each choice was made.

If the paper was titled "Wow, The Top 10 Algorithms in Data Mining Are Incredible, And I Can't Believe Where Naive Bayes Placed," then yeah, that might be link-baity.

Statistics professors HATE him! Doctor's discovery revealed the secret to learning any problem with just 10 training samples. Find a separating hyperplane with this One Weird Trick.

http://www.oneweirdkerneltrick.com/

Maybe I'm being selective about my memory, but I don't remember the awful linkbait titles being nearly so popular in 2007 when this was written. I don't think there's even the hint of imitation of Buzzfeed-style titling here. Also, I've taken a class from one of the authors, and I'd be surprised if he'd ever even seen those kinds of pages. :)