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Is Betteridge's law of headlines correct?

28 点作者 dundun大约 10 年前

7 条评论

nirvanis大约 10 年前
No.
rflrob大约 10 年前
&gt; We’re going to go out on a limb here and guesstimate that the remaining “maybe” answers can, given enough time and effort, be turned into “yes” or “no” answers, and that these will be distributed similarly to the 20:17 ratio of the fully answered headlines.<p>The OP does admit to going out on a limb, but I don&#x27;t think this is a justified assumption. Without having seen the headlines in question, I would guess they are in the maybe category because they are dubious at best.
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codezero大约 10 年前
The title sets us up for contradiction! If it&#x27;s correct then the answer to this post is Yes, which contradicts Betteridge&#x27;s law, so the answer must be No. :)<p>edit: I didn&#x27;t think this was controversial or anything, it was meant to be playful, sorry HN, I&#x27;ll take my downvote lumps I guess.
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et2o大约 10 年前
I love this idea. 30s ago I just read an NYT headline &quot;Are wearable devices worse for you than cigarettes?&quot;<p>No.
ConfuciusSay大约 10 年前
Now do one about Moore&#x27;s law.
Dewie大约 10 年前
I don&#x27;t get it. If you have a headline that forces you to actually read the article to find out what it&#x27;s talking about, or what the answer is, then people complain about &quot;click bait&quot;.<p>If you use some kind of predictable cliché for your title, then articles like &quot;Is X the new most dangerous thing?&quot; isn&#x27;t clickbait anymore - it&#x27;s just &quot;X is not the most dangerous thing (contrary to whatever belief&#x2F;myth&#x2F;contemporary opinion)&quot;. It&#x27;s predictable and straightforward. And yet, that&#x27;s apparently yet another reason for people to complain.
durzagott大约 10 年前
I&#x27;m sure Betteridge&#x27;s Law could be applied much more effectively to American news headlines than anything else. For example, how many times do we see crazy headlines on Fox News like &quot;Is Obama a gay communist terrorist?&quot;
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