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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."It is named after Ian Betteridge, a British technology journalist who wrote about it in 2009, although the principle is much older.
Betteridge's law of headlines: "any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word 'no ' ". Betz's law: No wind turbine can capture more than 16/27 (59.3%) of the kinetic energy in wind, independent of the design of the turbine, in open flow. Biot–Savart law describes the magnetic field set up by a steady current density.
[23] [24] Linguist Geoffrey K. Pullum characterizes this practice as deceptive, noting that the single-quoted expressions in newspaper headlines are often not actual quotations, and sometimes convey a claim that is not supported by the text of the article. [25] Another technique is to present the claim as a question, hence Betteridge's law of ...
Betteridge's law of headlines is about actual headlines, not about hypothetical things that could in principle appear as a headlines. It is also a quip, like Murphy's Law-- in fact, sometimes, there are things that could go wrong but don't go wrong. Geoffrey.landis 20:21, 14 September 2015 (UTC)
Betteridge's law of headlines, stating that when a headline asks a (yes-no) question, the answer is no. Considered "an old truism among journalists", it was well known before Betteridge wrote about it in 2009. Betz' law, which shows the maximum attainable energy efficiency of a wind turbine, was discovered first by Frederick W. Lanchester.
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Betteridge's law of headlines: Why, when a newspaper asks a yes-no question, the answer is usually "no". Big Dumb Object: Objects in science fiction literature and ...
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