People who correct other people’s typos can be some of the biggest nuisances around — not just because they’re pointing out flaws, but for the added conceit of thinking they’re doing you a favor.
According to a new study from the University of Michigan, that grammar-Nazi quality may actually be a pretty good proxy for a person’s level of agreeableness overall.
What the researchers found was that extroverted people tended not to harp as much on people’s mistakes as introverts did — perhaps because extroverts are happier to separate a person’s mistakes from their core self. Introverts may intimately connect the two.
More importantly, the team found a separate (though somewhat small) negative correlation between a person’s level of agreeableness and their likelihood of highlighting the errors. The least open-minded people, in other words, were the ones who stood out as the grammar police.
Read more at Business Insider.
{Matzav.com}
Jerks are people who censor the truth, afraid that the sheeple will wake up.
Okay, let everyone spell as they wish, and no one dare correct them.
Then let everyone do what they want religiously, and no one can ever say anything to them.
Sounds like a recipe for anarchy.
although there is a little bit of truth here.
– this “study” was made by ” jerks” themselves! cry- baby jerks , of the the leftist selfish agenda. ofcourse these brats can not take any criticism/ direction / instruction about anything, not just about spelling and typos. this ” study” is an embaresment .it never would have been done just a generation ago, when people were more about values and growth and standards. this “study” shows how very low the millennials have pulled down usa culture
I can’t help myself —— “embarrassment”!! by the way I’m a nice guy!