Years back I heard that 10 is a bad number for this kind of thing.
The reasoning goes that because it’s a round number people will assume that you chose it to be round and that at least some of your entries are filler to get up that number.
Whereas if you have 11 reasons or 7 or whatever, people will think that number is the actual number you needed to make all your points.
That’s subject to being Goodharted. Having unusual numbers as list size is a sign of trustworthiness, up until people start deliberately creating such lists to be seen as trustworthy, which causes them to cease being so.
Years back I heard that 10 is a bad number for this kind of thing.
The reasoning goes that because it’s a round number people will assume that you chose it to be round and that at least some of your entries are filler to get up that number.
Whereas if you have 11 reasons or 7 or whatever, people will think that number is the actual number you needed to make all your points.
That’s subject to being Goodharted. Having unusual numbers as list size is a sign of trustworthiness, up until people start deliberately creating such lists to be seen as trustworthy, which causes them to cease being so.