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"Of course, there are lots of industries whose product engineers would love to translate this finding into intentional engineering approaches to create metals that automatically heal themselves in our structural applications," lead-author Brad Boyce, a materials scientist at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, told Live Science. "Self-healing metals could be useful in a wide range of applications from airplane wings to automotive suspensions."

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[-] fearout@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Can any headline that ends in a question mark be answered by the word no?
No.

Here’s a quote from that wiki page you linked to:

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. Of the yes/no questions, 44 percent were answered "yes", 34 percent "maybe", and only 22 percent were answered "no".

In 2015, a study of 26,000 articles from 13 news sites on the World Wide Web, conducted by a data scientist and published on his blog, 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.

[-] GnothiSeauton@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

You are of course correct, the 'law' as written is way too vague to actually even apply in many situations. But it is a fun way to call out articles like this!

I would personally say it is more of a rule of thumb for identifying clickbait journalism. But calling it that isn't catchy enough, much like the first half of this article's headline 😄

[-] fearout@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I just found it kinda funny that the rule is actually wrong irl since yes is more common across the board, yet when formulated as a question the answer to it is no :)

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