People who constantly point out grammar mistakes are pretty much jerks, scientists find

sciencealert.com ^ | March 31, 2016 | FIONA MACDONALD

[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.

[Fantasywriter]

‘No study necessary - I knew that all along. If you’re a copy editor working with a document going into print, that’s one thing - but if you’re a poster “correcting” other people’s posts (of course, ignoring what they are saying), you need to get a life.’

+1

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Grammar mistakes are one thing but lazy so called journalists who don’t proof read and rely on autocomletion are something entirely.

[William Tell]

Your usage appears to be correct.

Here’s a link supplied by a link above.
http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/grammar_moods.html

It would appear that my high school teacher oversimplified the topic.

[grobdriver]

I hate it when people say “as well” instead of “too” or “also” or “and”.

Context, context, context!

If you had used "too" in a previous sentence, style and common sense dictates you find a synonym in the next sentence.

[IronJack]

So-called scientists who engage in worthless studies that reflect nothing more than opinion are largely parasitic a$$holes who need to get real jobs.

Why is accuracy in science such an imperative, while accuracy in language is the domain of "jerks?"

[Hoffer Rand]

The differences picked up in the research were pretty subtle - and it's a small sample size in general, so we need to take the results with a grain of salt...

Can you say "not statistically significant?" I knew you could.

[Disambiguator]

I thought Steve martin was the Jerk.

He was THE Jerk. Al is just "a" jerk. Not the same ranking at all.

[Fantasywriter]

Unless and until Windflier weighs in, the thread is pretty much pointless.

[William Tell]

Here’s the link I meant to post:

http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/grammar_subjunctive.html

It goes into some depth regarding the subjunctive mood.

[publius911]

It's those nameless sacred "scientists" again, always quoted, never named.

I read their stupid report.

An average of 7.2 grammatical or spelling errors per paragraph.

Of course they would conclude that...

[mountainfolk]

I doubt that there are few posts I have made that could not have been better articulated. If I spend much time editing I generally wind up deleting. Spelling errors creep in and are of no interest to others but can be embarrassing to the poster. Misuse of such as 'there' and 'their' and the like also can be unsettling but posts are not manuscripts. I will spellcheck this post to be on the safe side.

[dangerdoc]

Yep

[publius911]

not since the horse died

[Heart-Rest]

"I thought that Werner Von Braun was pretty cool,once you got past that little London thing."

You are certainly correct.  (And, like the old saying goes, this discussion ain't rocket science...oh, wait a minute, yes it is!)

It seems that WVB's ultimate fate could have gone either way, based on where the "V" was.   The Saturn "V" rockets rose to the heavens, but the "V-2" rockets could have sent him to a very warm place, where "global warming" will seem like a picnic!     :-)

[frithguild]

Teh autocorrects to the, so I would call shenanigans.

[frithguild]

He don’t care

[frithguild]

The second example violates the rules of parallelism.

[frithguild]

Improper use of colon, incorrect use of comma, violation of rules of parallelism and improper use of conjunction to begin a sentence

[frithguild]

Jeet? Let’s go to Pat’s!

[Arthur McGowan]

“Hitler” should be capitalized because it’s a proper name. And you left the period off at the end of the sentence.