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.

[DuncanWaring]

I think that one’s non-hyphenated. ;-)

[HombreSecreto]

According to Dilbert’s “Dick from the Internet,” pretty much. LOL

[al baby]

He does not deserve it neither does obama. love you xoxo

[kjam22]

These people have never been married to a middle school teacher....

[al baby]

Coloquialism sounds like a sex act

[HombreSecreto]

That and when replying to such people, always retort with, “yeah, and that’s what she said.”

[SGCOS]

I often wondered what grampar has to say about grammar. ..but he died before I could ask him.

Techically, that puts me up shits creek without a paddle

[soycd]

Beware the Regulator ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTndri7Khhs&list=PL441FCFF9C28E4662&index=35&nohtml5=False

[Disambiguator]

Weird Al Yankovic is a jerk, then.

[No_More_Harkin]

I thought for certain a reply like yours would be first.
Congrats on coming in 3rd tho!!

[Buttons12]

You spelled it bad.

-ly.

[Resolute Conservative]

This is yuge...

[Albion Wilde]

Scientific studies show that people who don't bother to proof their informal writing, even casually, are likely to be sloppy, poor thinkers who hold themselves to no standards. 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.

You just won the thread.

[Farmer Dean]

“Scientists are pretty much jerks.”
I thought that Werner Von Braun was pretty cool,once you got past that little London thing.

[ThomasThomas]

But only liberals that constantly get bothered by grammatical errors online drive BMWs.

[al baby]

Yes, Indeed and we know what he metaphor. To hit it !

[big bad easter bunny]

I do not like this guys sentence structure,; now I must go stomp on baby chicks!

[pax_et_bonum]

i agree
;-)

[DuncanWaring]

Missed it by 49 seconds.

[VanShuyten]

“Your period should be inside the quotation marks.”

That depends on which style manual you prefer.