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by jrflowers 2y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headline...
- michelsedgh 2y agoI loved reading this thank u! Very interesting. I wonder how many other stuff exists that would help you decipher between good and bad content specially these days. Edit: grammar
- exodust 2y agoIt's also clickbait in that a question suggests something is unresolved, needing reader input to help with an answer. This exploits the general wish people have to help with unresolved things. Not sure if the wikipedia article mentions this I glanced briefly.
- michelsedgh 2y agoBut these articles aren’t made to take ur input, they’re there for you to read when they ask a question. many of them you can’t even comment on it.
- stop50 2y agoThe law is limited to yes-no question. If the answer is yes, then the headline would be like "weed causes strokes".
- huppeldepup 2y ago“ The adage led into a humorous attempt at a liar paradox by a 1988 paper, written by physicist Boris Kayser under the pseudonym "Boris Peon", which …” Tangent … how exactly did one publish under a pseudonym in a peer-reviewed system? Is that still possible today?
- phi-go 2y agoMost peer-review procedures I know of are actually double blind, so the reviewers do not know the author and vice versa. Only in the final publishing step do you add a name, should be easy enough to use a pseudonym.