A new analysis suggests that posts in hate speech communities on the social media website Reddit share speech-pattern similarities with posts in Reddit communities for certain psychiatric disorders. Dr. Andrew William Alexander and Dr. Hongbin Wang of Texas A&M University, U.S., present these findings in the open-access journal PLOS Digital Health.
Correlation does nor imply causation in either direction. Perhaps they’re both caused by a third factor, or it’s a coincidence. We can’t know without doing an experiment.
Exactly - and with linguistic pattern analysis like this, the shared speech patterns could just be reflecting similar emotional states or communication styles rather than any actual psychological similarity betwen the groups.
They’re just trying too hard to absolve people with psychiatric disorders and that’s not really the issue here.
People engaging in hate speech are fundamentally broken, does it rise to the level of a disorder? 🤷♂️