[AlexC04]

I believe I read a "study" recently where a news headline analysis found that roughly a third of question-headlines were "yes", the other two thirds? "No" and "Maybe"

Turns out Betteridge's law is just something snarky Internet people say.

[AlexC04]

For further reference (as it seems I've been downvoted possibly for my own snark on this one) - since I can no longer edit the original comment, here are some references

This appears to be the one I recall: http://calmerthanyouare.org/2015/03/19/betteridges-law.html

My numbers were off it's actually 46% "non-polar", 20% "yes", 16% "maybe" and, 15% no

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9232419

Additionally there was a publication in a statistical journal which also discussed the "phenomenon" http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-016-2030-2 which also found that it wasn't a factual assertion (in academic papers).

Anyways - if the downvote was for something other than my own snark I'd love to hear what it was.

Apologies for coming off as a jerk.