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"Is Betteridge's law of headlines correct?" (brilliant title, given what follows) http://calmerthanyouare.org/2015/03/19/betteridges-law.html http://calmerthan
by 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 agoVery 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 agoI also did a manual inspection of the data and ended up mostly agreeing with the author of the post.