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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines

• johansch 10y ago
  "Is Betteridge's law of headlines correct?" (brilliant title, given what follows) http://calmerthanyouare.org/2015/03/19/betteridges-law.html http://calmerthanyouare.org/2015/03/19/betteridges-law.html "In other words, it appears as if roughly a quarter of all headlines which end in a question mark can be answered by the word no. You can go ahead and call that Linander’s law of headlines, if you will." Don't miss the data: https://gist.github.com/matslina/64601f39ef12bd653be6 https://gist.github.com/matslina/64601f39ef12bd653be6
  • paulddraper 10y ago
    Very many of those YES headlines were followed by favorable articles (like this one), but concretely, I would answer NO. Even their own supportive authors felt it wasn't clear enough to qualify for a statement.
    • johansch 10y ago
      I also did a manual inspection of the data and ended up mostly agreeing with the author of the post.