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[–] 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

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