Maybe it can be modified to something like:
“Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by yes or no, whichever seems the most obvious.”
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Blackmist@feddit.uk 6 days ago
Betteridge’s law of headlines: “Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.”
Maybe it can be modified to something like:
“Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by yes or no, whichever seems the most obvious.”
Nope:
Betteridge’s law of headlines is an adage that states: “Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.” It is based on the assumption that if the publishers were confident that the answer was yes, they would have presented it as an assertion; by presenting it as a question, they are not accountable for whether it is correct or not.
That’s no longer true. As headlines focus more and more on outrage clicks straying further and further from the content, all too many can now be answered with ”n/a”
By_pander@feddit.org 6 days ago
„Is drinking Paint thinner really as bad as everybody says?“
Strobelt@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Well. It could be worse than what everybody says
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 6 days ago
is the poupe deck really what i think it is
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Corollary:
How not following trends and drinking paint thinner boosted my B2B sales
Valmond@lemmy.world 6 days ago
No.
Tja@programming.dev 6 days ago
Are we talking about water-based paint?
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 6 days ago
You joke, but I actually know some contrarians that would legit try it if this was a headline they saw.