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"Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
That would be a great headline.
"Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
Except that 3 actual studies about it, turned out to have a different result: "A 2016 study of a sample of academic journals (not news publications) that set out to test Betteridge's law and Hinchliffe's rule (see below) found that few titles were posed as questions and of those, few were yes/no questions and they were more often answered "yes" in the body of the article rather than "no".[12] A 2018 study of 2,585 ar…
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Except that 3 actual studies about it, turned out to have a different result: "A 2016 study of a sample of academic journals (not news publications) that set out to test Betteridge's law and Hinchliffe's rule (see below) found that few titles were posed as questions and of those, few were yes/no questions and they were more often answered "yes" in the body of the article rather than "no".[12] A 2018 study of 2,585 ar…
You should update Wikipedia!
It works as an entertainment/grift industry.
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It also gives some people a sense of safety (by the illusion of being able to make sense of events).
Yes - something which many people are desperate for. And astrology, generally, is far less harmful than most of the alternatives.
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Yes - something which many people are desperate for. And astrology, generally, is far less harmful than most of the alternatives.
Not sure about that. If people are convinced they are not getting along with another person because they are "lion" and then never do a real analysis of their communication failures, then I see a lot of harm for all the people around them, usually children.
Astrology is just calendar. People born a certain time of the year have been exposed to similar conditions when developing, therefore have similar traits. Large scale epigenome analysis could quantify this, but there is no money in this research.
https://programs.clearerthinking.org/astrology_challenge.htm...