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There's an old saying about online headlines: If the headline asks a question, the answer is always no. If the answer were yes, the headline would say so.

ergonaught 4y ago
And yet the answer is yes.
- runesofdoom 4y ago
  Only if we count 35 years of archeology at Gobekli Tepe as 'unknown'. I find this particular set of archeological investigations to be amazing, and I'm glad to see larger awareness of them. But I think there's a good argument that Betteridge's law of headlines still applies. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge_law_of_headlines https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge_law_of_headlines
capableweb 4y ago
Betteridge's law of headlines: > "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." ... It is based on the assumption that if the publishers were confident that the answer was yes, they would have presented it as an assertion; by presenting it as a question, they are not accountable for whether it is correct or not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
notacoward 4y ago
Betteridge's Law from 2009, arguably repeating offline antecedents all the way back to 1991. If that seems old, maybe archaeology isn't for you.
867-5309 4y ago
not all questions have binary answers
SemanticStrengh 4y ago
A 2016 study of a sample of academic journals that set out to test Betteridge's law and Hinchliffe's rule (see below) found that few titles were posed as questions and of those, few were yes/no questions and they were more often answered "yes" in the body of the article rather than "no".[12]
- ksaj 4y ago
  This is similar to: - Look before you leap - He who hesitates is lost Studies and adages aren't all that different, it seems.
ksaj 4y ago
This time, the answer seems to be yes. It's really quite impressive if these were created by hunter-gatherers before the invention of written language.

ergonaught 4y ago

And yet the answer is yes.

runesofdoom 4y ago
Only if we count 35 years of archeology at Gobekli Tepe as 'unknown'. I find this particular set of archeological investigations to be amazing, and I'm glad to see larger awareness of them. But I think there's a good argument that Betteridge's law of headlines still applies. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge_law_of_headlines https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge_law_of_headlines

capableweb 4y ago

Betteridge's law of headlines: > "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." ... It is based on the assumption that if the publishers were confident that the answer was yes, they would have presented it as an assertion; by presenting it as a question, they are not accountable for whether it is correct or not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...

notacoward 4y ago

Betteridge's Law from 2009, arguably repeating offline antecedents all the way back to 1991. If that seems old, maybe archaeology isn't for you.

867-5309 4y ago

not all questions have binary answers

SemanticStrengh 4y ago

A 2016 study of a sample of academic journals that set out to test Betteridge's law and Hinchliffe's rule (see below) found that few titles were posed as questions and of those, few were yes/no questions and they were more often answered "yes" in the body of the article rather than "no".[12]

ksaj 4y ago
This is similar to: - Look before you leap - He who hesitates is lost Studies and adages aren't all that different, it seems.

ksaj 4y ago

This time, the answer seems to be yes. It's really quite impressive if these were created by hunter-gatherers before the invention of written language.