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"Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines https://en.wikipedia.

• lukan 2y ago
  Except that 3 actual studies about it, turned out to have a different result: "A 2016 study of a sample of academic journals (not news publications) 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] A 2018 study of 2,585 articles in four academic journals in the field of ecology similarly found that very few titles were posed as questions at all, with 1.82 percent being wh-questions and 2.15 percent being yes/no questions. Of the yes/no questions, 44 percent were answered "yes", 34 percent "maybe", and only 22 percent were answered "no".[13] In 2015, a study of 26,000 articles from 13 news sites on the World Wide Web, conducted by a data scientist and published on his blog, found that the majority (54 percent) were yes/no questions, which divided into 20 percent "yes" answers, 17 percent "no" answers and 16 percent whose answers he could not determine."
  • beardyw 2y ago
    You should update Wikipedia!
    • lukan 2y ago
      I quoted Wikipedia.
      • beardyw 2y ago
        Ah, sorry, I've read that article before. Maybe quote your source.
        • lukan 2y ago
          That source was the literal same article.
    • thrill 2y ago
      I've updated Wikipedia, on a different subject, where I was personally involved in something that was being described completely incorrectly and with significant misconclusion, with no sourcing. It was reverted within minutes. Twice.
• surgical_fire 2y ago
  "Can headlines that ends in a question mark be answered by the word no?" That would be a great headline.