Don’t ask why I need to spell multicollinearity (long story), but note for a second that my computer couldn’t even guess what I was after, and Google got it immediately.
This is not uncommon, either.
I’ve been told that computer spell-checkers are crippled by design to avoid false-positives. You don’t want to miss the typo of a common word that is technically the correct spelling of an obscure word, but not what you were intending. I forgave bad computer spell-checking for years on that reasoning, but Google doesn’t seem to have this problem.
Now that computer’s have internet connections, couldn’t we rig this thing to ping Google when it’s got “no guess”, rather than just telling me I’m S.O.L.? I’d be happy to let Google serve me super stat-geeky ads around the correct spelling of multicolinearity multicollinearity :-)
