Should you read this blog entry?

I don’t like news headings with question marks in them.

Like the one below from the Conversation today.

When there is a question mark in the heading then 99 times out of a 100 the author isn’t asking a question; rather an opinion is being shared.

The author probably think it’s tricky to dress up an opinion as a question in order to draw us in.

It’s an attempt by an author to show that he or she is an impartial type and has arrived at a very impartial position through the use of pure rational thinking in the course of writing the article, and therefore you should share the opinion too.

I don’t. If I see a question mark in the heading then I don’t read the article.

Which is to say that I only like being fooled by people that are smarter than me.