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looeee
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Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation? (2017)
Betteridge's law: for any headline ending in a question, the answer is 'no'.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headli...
TheCapeGreek
on June 27, 2019
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It's surprising how actually effective it is when trying to determine if an article is going to be worth your time.
antisthenes
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Combine it with Sturgeon's Law (90% of everything is crap) and you're left with a very small subset of decent journalism.
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