{"id":1080,"date":"2015-12-22T23:33:36","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T22:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/?p=1080"},"modified":"2015-12-22T23:33:36","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T22:33:36","slug":"thats-rude-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/2015\/thats-rude-period","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s rude, period."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m thankful blogging is clearly a written medium and not something existing in the netherworld of texting and chatting, and I&#8217;ve got a new reason why.\u00c2\u00a0 Folks at Binghamton University (NY, just north of the PA border) performed a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0747563215302181\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a> in which they presented the participants with several exchanges, either text messages or handwritten notes.\u00c2\u00a0 Some exchanges were filler exchanges; the other 16 were the experiment.\u00c2\u00a0 All 16 existed with two variations on the reply: with or without the period.\u00c2\u00a0 Each participant got eight with and eight without period.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that in text messaging, participants assigned a small but statistically significant difference in sincerity to the two messages, with the message with the period rating as less sincere.\u00c2\u00a0 The difference in the handwritten notes wasn&#8217;t statistically significant.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s some cause for concern for this chronically punctilious speller, but what&#8217;s perhaps more concerning is that with 1 being &#8220;very insincere&#8221; and 7 being &#8220;very sincere&#8221; on their <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Likert_scale\" target=\"_blank\">Likert scal<\/a>e, the average ratings all hover around 4, &#8220;Neutral.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 Either it means participants couldn&#8217;t tell the sincerity of the message (&#8220;I dunno&#8230;&#8221;), they didn&#8217;t care (&#8220;I&#8217;ll just check the middle and get some easy course credit&#8221;), or just didn&#8217;t expect people in general to be sincere in their communication.\u00c2\u00a0 (The handwritten notes scored around 4, too.)<\/p>\n<p>The take-home message appears to be to turn off that autocorrect and just bungle your texts.\u00c2\u00a0 u no waht i mean&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m thankful blogging is clearly a written medium and not something existing in the netherworld of texting and chatting, and I&#8217;ve got a new reason why.\u00c2\u00a0 Folks at Binghamton University (NY, just north of the PA border) performed a study in which they presented the participants with several exchanges, either text messages or handwritten notes.\u00c2\u00a0 Some exchanges were filler exchanges; the other 16 were the experiment.\u00c2\u00a0 All 16 existed with two variations on the reply: with or without the period.\u00c2\u00a0 Each participant got eight with and eight without period. It turns out that in text messaging, participants assigned a small but statistically significant difference in sincerity to the two messages, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1081,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080\/revisions\/1081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}