Originally posted by Lord Lucan A little more from Wikipedia:
A 2016 study of a sample of academic journals that set out to test Hinchliffe's Rule and Betteridge's Law found that few titles were posed as questions; of those, most were not yes/no questions; and of those that were, they were more often answered "yes" in the body of the article rather than "no".[13] A 2018 study of 2,585 articles in four academic journals in the field of ecology similarly found that very few titles were posed as questions at all, with 1.82 percent being wh-questions and 2.15 percent being yes/no questions.[14] Of the yes/no questions, 44 percent were answered "yes", 34 percent "maybe", and only 22 percent were answered "no".[14] In 2015, a study of 26,000 articles from 13 news sites on the World Wide Web, conducted by data scientist Mats Linander, found that the majority (54 percent) were yes/no questions, which divided into 20 percent "yes" answers, 17 percent "no" answers and 16 percent whose answers he could not determine (all percentages rounded by Linander).[1
Looks like the law is a dud.
Thanks,
barondla