Betteridge's Law

Betteridge's law English Proper noun Betteridge's Law en Betteridge's law. en w:Jon Evans Pair Programming Considered Harmful? https://techcrunch.com/2012/03/03/pair-programming-considered-harmful/ https://web.archive.org/web/20170715200008/https://techcrunch.com/2012/03/03/pair-programming-considered-harmful/ 15 July 2017 w:TechCrunch 3 March 2012 No, no, hell no. The true answer is that there is no one answer; that what works best is a dynamic combination of solitary, pair, and group work, depending on the context, using your best judgement. Paired programming definitely has its place. (Betteridge’s Law strikes again!) In some cases that place may even be “much of most days.” But insisting on 100 percent pairing is mindless dogma, and like all mindless dogma, ultimately counterproductive. en w:Jonathan Zittrain No, Barack Obama isn’t Handing Control of the Internet over to China: The Misguided Freakout over ICANN https://newrepublic.com/article/117093/us-withdraws-icann-why-its-no-big-deal https://web.archive.org/web/20140330154410/https://newrepublic.com/article/117093/us-withdraws-icann-why-its-no-big-deal 30 March 2014 w:The New Republic 25 March 2014 And from the National Journal: “When U.S. Steps Back, Will Russia and China Control the Internet?” As Betteridge’s Law of Headlines suggests, the answer is no. en Tim Holmes How to Create Great News Headlines Subediting and Production for Journalists: Print, Digitial, Social Media Skills 2nd Abingdon, Oxon.; New York, N.Y. w:Routledge 2016 88 https://books.google.com/books?id=5MNzCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA88 978-0-415-49200-3 Andrew Marr believes that a headline with a question mark at the end 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.' (Marr 2005: 253). His advice to readers is – 'If the headline asks a question, try answering "no"' (loc. cit.). This motto has since been parlayed into a 'law' – Betteridge's Law, named for Ian Betteridge after he wrote a piece for Technovia questioning the validity of a news item published under a headline that ended in a question mark.