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Demonstrably false, there are many cases where the answer is yes... it's just that there's also a lot of no.
Obviously. It is, however, a good heuristic. The headlines that can be answered in the affirmative are very much in the minority
Not according to several different studies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines#Studies