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Sentence from article: "As researchers found, those were surveyed to be "less agreeable" were most bothered by the errors, while those who surveyed as having a "more agreeable" personality tended to overlook typos" is grammatically weird and I had to read it several times. I think it makes sense if "who" goes in between the bolded words.

In any case, agreeableness, as I read it on the link to the wiki page, has nothing to do with jerkiness, but rather a scale of ease to trust and help.

Also, two paragraphs seem to contradict each other. Emphasis mine.

"Agreeability was the only personality trait to have a main effect on the Housemate Scale," the study read.
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Those who rated down the emails with errors were more judgmental about the persons writing them, too. As researchers found, the introverted, "less agreeable" people "perceived intelligence, friendliness, and so forth" of the email writer more pessimistically.
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According to the scale, agreeableness and extroversion are two different parts of the scale. So the introverted part of the second paragraph contradicts the first. Maybe it's the article writer's fault and not the study itself. Off to look at that.

83 is a tough sample size, too.
 
Cursory look at the actual study found typos more egregious to "less agreeable" scale than "grammos." Typo as defined in the study was essentially swapped letters (mkae instead of make) while grammo was defined as the common grammatical errors like "you're" and "your."
 
Introverts are jerks?

Yeah, I get it extrovert, introverts make you nervous and uneasy. Sorry you had to feel the way introverts feel all the time.
 
Gameface said:
Introverts are jerks?

Yeah, I get it extrovert, introverts make you nervous and uneasy. Sorry you had to feel the way introverts feel all the time.
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Unfortunately, this is the implication given by the article writers. Study doesn't really support that, as mentioned earlier, the article writers lump two of the five personality traits into one and misinterpret what the "agreeable" scale actually means.
 
Stifle Tower said:
Sorry, just can't resist. And no, irregardless of what the article implies, I don't think your a jerk. Well, at least not all the time. It's really a mute point,

https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Study-says-those-who-call-out-grammatical-errors-7221146.php
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being married to, or a younger sibling of, an English teacher or major would probably yield a higher correlation factor than primal jerkiness.

being a mod, much less a chief honcho, on a webz site probably has a higher correlation too, it's the situation, not the personality. Fracking guests routinely for genuinely good reasons will lower a person's resistance to offering helpful little tidbits intended to make writing more readable on this site. . . .

Classic logical error of inferring that one loosely correlated factor is all there is to know about why someone does something.

having a family of Ph. Ds makes me think I know everything, because I've been told and retold over and over again,by experts. lol
 
Gameface said:
Introverts are jerks?

Yeah, I get it extrovert, introverts make you nervous and uneasy. Sorry you had to feel the way introverts feel all the time.
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In all seriousness, that was what bugged me the most. The article pretty much assumed a priori that introverts are jerks. What!??
 
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