(Source: www.piqsels.com)This is not the time for mistakes.....
A study has found that people who point out grammar mistakes have 'less agreeable' personalities.
The research explored how someone's personality traits can determine how they react to typos and grammatical errors.
It was published in PLOS One, researchers argued it could teach us a lot about how we communicate online.
According to Ladbible, lead researcher Julie Boland said:
"This is the first study to show that the personality traits of listeners/readers have an effect on the interpretation of language.
"In this experiment, we examined the social judgments that readers made about the writers."
The group that took part in the in research read emails that contained grammatical errors such as 'teh' instead of 'the', or mixing up 'too/to' and 'it's/its'.
People who answered as being more conscientious were found to be more sensitive to typos, and those with less agreeable personalities appeared to be more annoyed by grammatical errors.
Researchers said:
"Less agreeable participants showed more sensitivity to grammos than participants high in agreeability, perhaps because less agreeable people are less tolerant of deviations from convention."
"What is new in the current results is our finding that the personality traits of the reader influence the impact of typos and grammar."
