No :)

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    4 days ago

    So your answer is “Yes”?

    As the wikipedia article cites peer reviewed study (see study tab) that even though these kind of headlines make up only ~ 2 % of all hesdlines 44 % of them answer “yes”, and only 22 % answer “no” with the rest being indecisive.

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      4 days ago

      Somehow you read all that and missed the first sentence.

      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.”

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        4 days ago

        I think their point is that this stupid internet meme based off of a random tech writer - akin to Cory Doctorow’s “enshittification” - is not even backed up by its own citation

        Wikipedia is such a shithole…

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      4 days ago

      I think studies that look at the article’s response are going to give a very different outcome than the real world result. The heuristic exists because a lot of news is overhyped halfsense trying to generate clicks (or draw eyeballs in the pre-digital world). So even if the article suggests a yes answer, a no outcome is still probably more likely.

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        4 days ago

        Great thing to say for redditors who have zero original thoughts and cannot contribute to any topic in depth

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          3 days ago

          You realise the article itself suggests that the answer to the question is in fact “no”, right? (That is to say, it agrees with Betteridges’s law.)

          And that carbon capture is often pushed by the oil industry as a magic bullet?

          And that we often get headlines that look an awful lot like this that are trying to push an agenda which says “Yes, it’s fine, big oil has everything under control. No need for any climate action,” right?

          I’m not sure why you’re being a jackass towards people who you likely agree with.

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              3 days ago

              I’m not sure why your so dismissive of it. It’s a heuristic that exists for a reason. Maybe you should read the wikipedia article linked above so you understand why that is.

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                3 days ago

                You are being very tedious, and none of you have added a single thing to the discussion of this article. I put my thoughts on your journalism meme in other replies here anyways. I hope you try contributing something worth reading next time, although I won’t see any of your posts again thanks to this handy anti annoyance button right here 🚯