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According to the Wikipedia entry, the "law" does not reflect reality upon inspection:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...



Cool! Seems to be citing this nice post here: http://calmerthanyouare.org/2015/03/19/betteridges-law.html

I didn't realize the biggest reason against it is that the majority of headline questions aren't yes/no.

Oh well, it's still funny to silently answer any (yes/no) headline question with "no!" before reading.




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