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Advice wearing a trench coat so you'll blame yourself, not the advisor, if it flops.
means A suggestion offered as a good option — endorsing something or someone, or advising a particular course of action.
from From Latin recommendare — re- (intensifying) plus commendare, 'to entrust, commit to one's care,' itself from com- (together) plus mandare ('to commission, entrust,' the root also behind 'command' and 'mandate'). So to recommend something is, at its root, to vouch for it strongly enough to hand it into someone else's trust — the word has carried that sense of 'put in good standing' since it entered English in the late medieval period via French.
- algorithms do it
- netflix guesses you via strangers' guilty pleasures
- word origin
- from latin commendare, literally to entrust
- liability shield
- letters often say little to dodge lawsuits
- social proof bias
- people copy choices more than they judge quality