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[-] bleistift2@feddit.de 68 points 2 years ago

Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines

[-] maik@infosec.pub 12 points 2 years ago

This “law” doesn’t really hold up, according to that article’s studies section. I wholeheartedly agree that it’s a dirty and gross way to head something; but it was more interesting that the answer appears to more often be “yes”. Problem is there are so few examples of it (comparatively).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines#Studies

[-] holiday@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

That's because it's no longer a journalistic article but an editorial.

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