Bad grammar, typos and language errors make prospective partners seem less attractive, study shows

Being able to spell, checking your profile for typos and using correct grammar could determine whether you get a match on a dating site, a new study has revealed. Researchers worked with members of an online dating service and asked them to read fake profiles that had language errors as well as ones that had no mistakes. The study of more than 800 people on a dating site in the Netherlands found that errors such as writing'teh' for'the' and putting capital letters in the wrong place suggested sloppiness and a lack of attention to detail. If a profile has spelling mistakes and grammatical errors they were more likely to be perceived as less intelligent and so were less likely to be a match. 'In the case of online dating, inattentiveness can be interpreted as a lack of effort and interest in putting time and effort in constructing a dating profile.