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I once saw the claim: for any headline ending in a question mark, the answer is always "we don't know." I have never found a counterexample.
by sjbase 9y ago
I once saw the claim: for any headline ending in a question mark, the answer is always "we don't know."
I have never found a counterexample.
- humanrebar 9y agoBetteridge's law of headlines says the answer to question headlines is "No". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
- tinalumfoil 9y agohttp://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/global-warming-real/ http://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming... Not too hard to find exceptions. IMO it's a pretty worthless law even if only stated for entertainment value. A lot of times a yes-no question, like above, is just used as a low-effort intro to a low-effort article but sometimes a yes-no question could act as a well-thought-out intro to a well-thought-out article. It doesn't take too much experience to understand when a title is just being vague to draw you into a bad article.