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Funnily enough that law is empirically false, and most of the time (although it's near a coinflip) the answer is yes


Do you have a link for the study?


I read the Wikipedia article linked above. They go over the studies there.


To Tome’s law?


Interesting, I found this article which backs you up http://calmerthanyouare.org/2015/03/19/betteridges-law.html


tome's law strikes again!

"In any discussion about an article whose title is a question, Betteridge's law is mentioned with probability 1."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24545238


I'm so sorry tome, but this is actually the Fourth Law of Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4722251

This predates tome's law by 3 years.


Very interesting!


The Twelfth Law Of Hacker News: Any reference to Betteridge's Law will have at least one reply referring to the unreliability of Betteridge's Law.




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