10 amazing scientific facts about lists

[Jazzy]

People like lists of things. They're everywhere on the internet. You name any subject matter you can think of, odds are there's a list about it. Nowhere is safe. Even here, on the Guardian Science section, one of the most popular articles in recent months is a list. But why are lists so popular? Well, here are 10 astonishing facts about lists that may help explain it.

I write To-Do Lists. Do you?

 

[seasidemike]

actually I don't.

if I made a list, I would probably lose it anyway..

 

[DrLeftover]

The only thing I make a list for is grocery shopping of things we need that we don't buy every week.



Just the act of writing it on the list helps me remember to get it.

 

[Evil Eye]

I don't. It'd take too long to make a list