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114:? (No; or you wouldn't have put the question mark in.) Does This Map Provide the Key for Peace? (Probably not.) A headline with a question mark at the end means, in the vast majority of cases, that the story is tendentious or over-sold. It is often a scare story, or an attempt to elevate some run-of-the-mill piece of reporting into a national controversy and, preferably, a national panic. To a busy journalist hunting for real information a question mark means 'don't bother reading this bit'. 134:
In 2015, a study of 26,000 articles from 13 news sites on the World Wide Web, conducted by a data scientist and published on his blog, found that the majority (54 percent) were yes/no questions, which divided into 20 percent "yes" answers, 17 percent "no" answers and 16 percent whose answers he could
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A 2016 study of a sample of academic journals (not news publications) that set out to test Betteridge's law and Hinchliffe's rule (see below) found that few titles were posed as questions and of those, few were yes/no questions and they were more often answered "yes" in the body of the article rather
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This story is a great demonstration of my maxim that any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word "no." The reason why journalists use that style of headline is that they know the story is probably bullshit, and don't actually have the sources and facts to back it up, but
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Advertisers and marketers prefer yes/no question headlines that are answered "yes", as a reader that immediately answers "no" to a question headline on an advertisement is likely to skip over the advertisement entirely. The most famous example of such a question headline in advertising is "Do you
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41:." It is named after Ian Betteridge, a British technology journalist who wrote about it in 2009, although the principle is much older. It is based on the assumption that if the publishers were confident that the answer was 60:
variants called it "Davis's law", a name that also appears online without any explanation of who Davis was. It has also been referred to as the "journalistic principle" and in 2007 was referred to in commentary as "an old
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increased click-through rates in comparison to statement headlines and that questions that address or reference the reader have statistically significant higher click-through rates than rhetorical or general questions.
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might not in fact win, persuaded Charles M. Lincoln, the managing editor of the paper, to reset the headline in between editions, inserting a question mark. Confusingly, below the question headline the
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A 2018 study of 2,585 articles in four academic journals in the field of ecology similarly found that very few titles were posed as questions at all, with 1.82 percent being
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on his way out?" Because this implication is known to readers, guides giving advice to newspaper editors state that so-called "question heads" should be used sparingly.
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Freelance writer R. Thomas Berner calls them "gimmickry". Grant Milnor Hyde observed that they give the impression of uncertainty in a newspaper's content. When
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and 2.15 percent being yes/no questions. Of the yes/no questions, 44 percent were answered "yes", 34 percent "maybe", and only 22 percent were answered "no".
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to Endorse Gay Marriage Between Corporations?" as hypothetical examples of such a practice. Many question headlines were used, for example, in reporting of
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Lai, Linda; Farbrot, Audun (25 October 2013). "What makes you click? The effect of question headlines on readership in computer-mediated communication".
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If the headline asks a question, try answering 'no'. Is This the True Face of Britain's Young? (Sensible reader: No.) Have We Found the Cure for
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Victor Schwab, a partner in the advertising agency that worked for Cody, published an analysis of the aspects of the headline (as
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Betteridge's name became associated with the concept after he discussed it in a February 2009 article, which examined a previous
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also famously used a question headline for hedging when editors were unsure of their facts, when it reported the outcome of the
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Phrasing headlines as questions is a tactic employed by newspapers that do not "have the facts required to buttress the
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in-fighting in 2004, because no politicians went on record to confirm or deny facts, such as "Is
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characterized the practice as justifying "virtually anything, no matter how unlikely", giving "
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was to avoid question headlines, unless the question itself reflected a national issue.
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under the pseudonym "Boris Peon", which bore the title: "Is Hinchliffe's Rule True?" (
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The maxim has been cited by other names since 1991, when a published compilation of
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that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word
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Question headlines are not legally sound when it comes to avoiding defamation. The
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newspapers ran statement headlines on 8 November 1916 saying "Hughes Is Elected" (
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A Thousand Deadlines: The New York City Press and American Neutrality, 1914–17
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came to a similar conclusion, finding that question headlines posted to
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ran one with a question headline, "Hughes Elected in Close Contest?"
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has a long history, including the 9 June 1883, headline in
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A similar observation was made by British newspaper editor
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This was the result of a last-minute intervention by then
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