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by gaur 3663 days ago
> Who will win the US presidential election?

> No.

I have no idea why people insist on quoting an obviously nonsensical formulation of this aphorism. It clearly can only be applied to headlines phrased with yes-no questions, so saying it applies to "any headline that ends in a question mark" is false.

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I am sure that we can institute an HN corollary that states that for any headline in which there is a question mark in the title, someone on HN will quote Betteridge's Law of Headlines.

Forgive me if this has been done already.