Donald Trump may no longer be the most-liked 2016 candidate on Facebook – that honor has been handed over to Ben Carson – but his Facebook commenters do top a new survey out this week: Most grammar mistakes.
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The candidate with the most grammatically correct Facebook page is Democrat Lincoln Chafee.
The company summarized all of its findings in an interesting infographic you can view here. Also consider that there are only five Democratic candidates compared to 14 Republican candidates, making the sheer number of errors slanted towards the GOP supporters simply because there are more candidates to study.
Coming up in the rankings right behind Trump were fellow Republicans Rick Santorum with 11.5 grammar errors per 100 words and Marco Rubio with 8.8 mistakes per 100 words.
In an analysis of posts from the Facebook pages of USA presidential hopefuls, supporters of Donald Trump fared the worst when it came to writing skills.
Bob McNamara of Spillville, Iowa, and others, listen to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign stop at the Electric Park Ballroom, Wednesday, October 7, 2015, in Waterloo, Iowa.
Blatantly negative comments, or those from so-called trolls, were removed from the study, which analyzed a time period from April to August. Fiorina and Clinton meet in the middle at 6.3. The team then looked specifically at positive or neutral comments and ran grammar tests using both Grammarly and live proofreaders.
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Not discounting common slang, serial comma usage or the use of numerals instead of spelled-out numbers, Grammarly dialed in instead on what they call “black-and-white mistakes” like misspellings, wrong and missing punctuation, misused or missing words and subject-verb disagreement. Then, finally, according to Grammarly, “we calculated the average number of mistakes per one hundred words by dividing the total word count of the comments by the total number of mistakes for each candidate”.
