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.

[–] MysteriousSophon21@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world -2 points 1 month ago

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? 🤷‍♂️