Questions to Which the Answer is "No!"

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You may have come across the concept of Questions To Which The Answer Is No. It comes from Betteridge’s law of headlines that states: ‘any headline that ends in a question mark, can be answered by the word no‘. There is even an annual award ceremony for the best examples of the tradition. It is worth reading up on the Swedish system. Their rent control system does not cap rents or freeze them but controls them by controlling the increases in rents through collective bargaining between landlords and tenants unions. Rises are almost always above CPI/Inflation. The resulting increase is then ‘distributed’ across the different properties according to the ‘use value’ system.

Battistella, Edwin L (2009). Do You Make These Mistakes in English?: The Story of Sherwin Cody's Famous Language School. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195367126. No. This isn’t a redundancy situation, it is about performance. So let’s deal with it appropriately even if that is more difficult. Germany has long had a system of ‘ second-generation rent controls’, which restrict a landlord’s ability to raise rents during an ongoing tenancy. But when putting a flat on the market, they had thus far been free to demand any price they could get away with. Second-generation rent controls change the timing and incidence of rent increases, but ultimately, they do not affect aggregate rent levels. The Swedish Union of Tenants defends the Swedish rent control system as ‘not a rent control system at all, but a negotiated collective bargaining system that is half way between the free market and rent control’. Apparently, because the decision on what the rent increase should be isn’t made by government officials, it isn’t a control. Liberman, Mark (17 September 2006). "Rhetorical questions: threat or menace?". Language Log . Retrieved 12 May 2019.Cook, James M.; Plourde, Dawn (25 June 2016). "Do scholars follow Betteridge's Law? The use of questions in journal article titles" (PDF). Scientometrics. 108 (3): 1119–1128. doi: 10.1007/s11192-016-2030-2. ISSN 0138-9130. S2CID 16494221. The first empirical assessment of the Mietpreisbremse, from the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW), is now out. The authors compare the evolution of rental markets in places subject to the Mietpreisbremse to otherwise similar rental markets not subject to it. The good news is that the Mietpreisbremse has not, as one might have expected, led to a drop in property development. The maxim has been cited by other names since 1991, when a published compilation of Murphy's law variants called it "Davis's law", a name that also appears online without any explanation of who Davis was. [4] [5] [6] [7] It has also been referred to as the "journalistic principle" and in 2007 was referred to in commentary as "an old truism among journalists". [8] [9] [10] History [ edit ]

Not unless you are going to genuinely commit to doing something with the content, and finding other ways of listening to your people too – and definitely more regularly than once a year. To make sense of enormous databases, statisticians have developed innovative analytical tools, including machine learning, A/B testing, and natural-language processing. Storage and computation speeds have also improved in recent years. The story, about a jewellery store that had tried to prevent its female employees from flirting with people outside the store, only mentioned "Peppermint" Mary at the end of the piece as an employee who might possibly have caused this and did not answer the question. [25] However, this fails to consider that people working at home will have higher utility bills (heating etc) and in many cases are expected to pay for their own office furniture, IT equipment, and other associated costs. So the net effect may be far less, even if you ignore the bigger question of what salary is paid for.Probably not. Especially if whatever it is, is a one-off occurrence or relates to one individual. Most of the time, a conversation will be just fine. Resist the urge to turn everything into a document.

It's an old truism among journalists..." ". MeatRobot.org.uk. 4 December 2007 . Retrieved 12 May 2019. Hyde, Grant Milnor (1931). "Headline Writing". Newspaper Editing: A Manual for Editors, Copyreaders, and Students of Newspaper Desk Work (2nded.). D. Appleton.Not quite. The reason why the Mietpreisbremse has not had any discernible negative effects is simply that it has not had any discernible effects at all. Rents in controlled areas have shown the same trend as rents in otherwise similar, but uncontrolled areas, so it has not been much of a Bremse (=brake) at all. Why not? This was the result of a last-minute intervention by then World journalist Herbert Bayard Swope, who, having received a tip from gambling friends that Charles Evans Hughes might not in fact win, persuaded Charles M. Lincoln, the managing editor of the paper, to reset the headline in between editions, inserting a question mark. [29] [30] Confusingly, below the question headline the World still had a picture of Hughes captioned "The President-Elect" but the question headline did indeed turn out to have the answer "no", as President Woodrow Wilson was re-elected, which the World finally announced in a headline two days later. [26] [28] Schwab, Victor O. (September 1939). "An Advertisement That Is Never Changed". Printers' Ink Monthly: 10–11, 64–65. Marr, Andrew (2004). My Trade: a short history of British journalism. London: Macmillan. ISBN 9781405005364. Bear in mind that, by design, the areas where the Mietpreisbremse applies are areas where demand exceeds supply. There will be more than one applicant per flat, and if you are one of them, you will want to impress your potential future landlord. Emphasising what a tidy, reliable and responsible person you are might be a good idea. Asking inquisitive questions about how the rent had been worked out, and whether it is definitely Mietpreisbremse-compliant, not so much.