Scientists revealed that individuals who constantly get concerned about online grammatical errors tend to have “less agreeable” personalities as compared to those who simply pay no attention to them.

Psychological testing discovers the individuals who are more concerned with typos are normally less open. They are more likely to be involved in judging your mistakes as compared to anyone else. This is the 1^st time researchers became able to demonstrate that the personality traits of a person can be determined by their response towards grammatical errors and typos. This finding can explore lots of the things about how people use to communicate online.

The research was conducted by taking a sample of 83 participants who were asked to read email responses for a housemate ad. Some of those emails contained no errors while others were altered to include grammatical mistakes or typing errors.

All those 83 individuals judged the person who would have written the email with respect to their perceived friendliness, intelligence, and other related or unrelated attributes, their ability to be a good housemate.

After the experiment, they were also asked whether they found any typos or grammatical errors in the emails or not, and, if they did, to what extent did they bother them.

The participants were additionally asked to complete a Big Five personality valuation – which rates the users on a scale of conscientiousness, neuroticism, extraversion/introversion, agreeableness and openness. They were also required to answer questions about their background, age, and approach towards language.

In general, the fictional housemates with grammatical errors and typos were ranked worse than those whom email responses did not possess any grammatical mistakes or typing errors. However, some personality types judged the applicants more severely.

For instance, extraverts were more inclined towards overlooking both typos and grammar errors, while introverts were more inclined towards judging the fictional housemates negatively.

Participants with more conscientious and less openness were more sensitive to typos, whereas less agreeable participants got more frustrated by grammatical mistakes. However, neuroticism did not affect the interpretation of mistakes.

Given the fact of small sample size, further research is now required to dig the issue deeply.

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