I'm so glad they banned other groups and saved the hate ones..
this post was submitted on 29 Jul 2025
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"Importantly, these findings do not at all suggest that people with psychiatric disorders are more prone to hate speech or misinformation."
They might have it the wrong way around... People engaging in hate speech and misinformation may be more prone to psychiatric disorders.
I think the researcher's hypothesis for explanation is most likely. Lack of empathy as a shared trait between bigots snd people with cluster b disorders
It’s kind of like people who have strokes become republicans.
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? 🤷♂️
Correlation |= causation, which is why they can't derive that conclusion.
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.