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If the answer is "We don't know", then the article should not be posting headlines as questions they don't have an answer too. Unless they are just fishing for
by laserDinosaur 14y ago
If the answer is "We don't know", then the article should not be posting headlines as questions they don't have an answer too. Unless they are just fishing for traffic.
- cryptoz 14y agoThe website linked here in a Scientific American blog. Their job description is probably two words: "ask questions". Questions are extremely important. > If the answer is "We don't know", then the article should not be posting headlines as questions they don't have an answer too. Am I feeding a troll? This is silly. Publicly asking questions that you don't have an answer to is perhaps the single most important feat humanity has ever achieved. Just calm down about the question, yeah? It's important, and it's not "fishing for traffic". It's a real, serious question.
- finnw 14y ago> Am I feeding a troll? You just disproved Betteridge's law
- rb12345 14y agoYou can do that far better by applying it to itself ("Can any headline which ends in a question mark be answered by the word no?") or with a question requiring a non-yes/no answer ("How many Higgs bosons has ATLAS really found?").