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Betteridge's Law of Headlines states that any headline ending in a question mark can be answered with "no".
by lo_fye 5mo ago
Betteridge's Law of Headlines states that any headline ending in a question mark can be answered with "no".
- raffael_de 5mo agoI'm a huge fan of those kinds of "laws"¹. My favorite one is Conway's law². Having said that Betteridge's Law never really convinced me. As far as my gut is concerned it's just always true for one in two cases. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_eponymous_laws https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_eponymous_laws 2: "[O]rganizations which design systems (in the broad sense used here) are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations."
- relaxing 5mo agoBetteridge’s law needs allowances for cases where the issue at hand is opinion or speculation. In this case, the non-clickbait headline would be “Germany’s Gold isn’t Safe in New York”, but the facts aren’t there to go to press with that.