Presidential Candidates Ranked By Their Supporters’ Grammar

[HuckleB]

http://scientificliteracymatters.com/2015/10/presidential-candidates-ranked-by-their-supporters-grammar/

"This is fascinating approach to analyzing what kind of voters different parties candidates attract.

Grammarly went to each candidate’s Facebook page, collecting comments that were at least 15 words long and expressed either positive or neutral feelings about the candidate. Then, researchers randomly selected at least 180 of those comments to analyze for each candidate.

Of course grammar isn’t a good measure of intelligence on its own, but it does insinuate a lot about the voters."



The results will not surprise anyone at DU.

[Wilms]

1. Your sig line is great!

[HuckleB]

2. Thanks. It's stolen, but I couldn't resist!

[Qutzupalotl]

4. Thank you.

[bulloney]

3. The best use of grammar is demonstrated by supporters of the Democratic candidates.

Equally not surprising is that the people using the lowest number of unique words came from Republican candidate supporters. How many times on this website and other forums have people observed that Repub supporters parrot what they hear on RW talk radio and Faux Snooze rather than forming and expressing an opinion on their own?

[denverbill]

5. Man I can't believe the Trump group. 12 mistakes per 100 words?

[bulloney]

6. These are the same types of people who'll proudly display placards

like "Make English the ofecal langage," "Get a brain morans" and the like.

And you can't believe it?

[HuckleB]

7. It does seem absolutely amazing.

[Flying Squirrel]

8. First two comments on the article:

Edward Roth

*Sigh* Its, not it's.


William Young

And in the title it should be supporters', not supporters.