It sucks to say, but it drives engagement in a way that keeps getting clicks and reposts to a blog from 2012, in a way that one written like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensitivity_and_specificity wouldn't.

EDIT: I tried here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35533897 but hacker news filtered my title so its not as clickbaity as I wanted anymore.