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by jmoss20 2552 days ago
Even if the correlation is real, what I'm getting at is that it isn't causal. Good grammar probably makes for a good bet on more trustworthiness, but I'm wondering when/how that bet is going to be wrong (and it is, if it's not causal), and how that effects us (on the massive scale that is our info consumption across the entire internet).

back to the Amazon example: an expert car mechanic may have worse spelling/grammar than a hobbyist, but I should probably trust their Amazon review of a car part more.