Posted on 04/06/2016 1:20:07 PM PDT by Morgana
Scientists have found that people who constantly get bothered by grammatical errors online have "less agreeable" personalities than those who just let them slide.
And those friends who are super-sensitive to typos on your Facebook page? Psychological testing reveals they're generally less open, and are also more likely to be judging you for your mistakes than everyone else. In other words, they're exactly who you thought they were. That sounds pretty obvious, but this is actually the first time researchers have been able to show that a person's personality traits can actually determine how they respond to typos and grammatical errors, and it could teach us a lot about how people communicate (or miscommunicate) online.
"This is the first study to show that the personality traits of listeners/readers have an effect on the interpretation of language," said lead researcher Julie Boland from the University of Michigan. "In this experiment, we examined the social judgments that readers made about the writers."
The researchers took 83 participants and asked them all to read email responses to an ad for a housemate, which either contained no errors or had been altered to include typos (e.g. "teh" instead of "the") or grammatical mix-ups, such as too/to or it's/its.
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Finally... settled science upon which I can agree.
I agree and they add nothing to the debate just like when folks involved hitler and use the term haters
“pretty much” should be hyphenated.
People who constantly make grammar mistakes are pretty much dumbasses, scientists find.
I hate it when people say “as well” instead of “too” or “also” or “and”.
You didn’t capitalize Hitler.
Is “are pretty much jerks” good English usage?
The phrase “pretty much” is a coloquialism and should not be in a written news report.
al also failed to properly use commas, and did not capitalize proper nouns.
Guilty as charged. But I do it to be helpful, not to be superior or dismissive.
This might make the people rude enough to point out their errors jerks, but it doesn't change the kind of people they are either.
They said I’m pretty.
I’s agree. They am jerks...and probuly they is stoopid!
It don’t matter.
They are also ironically, poorly educated. English is one of the few languages on earth with no rules, and no “Academie Francaise”. English is the fastest, most adaptive, most useful language on earth. If it falls into common usage, and becomes accepted, its “English”.
A person enforcing the “rules” today is simply revealing their own ignorance.
The others are nowhere close.
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