Carelessness accounts for 23 per cent of spelling errors in college students' written themes¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · associational r1 · q2
Currency · newest study 1911 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Of 2,005 errors in 10,000 themes by 300 students, 467 (23 per cent) were due to carelessness and must be excluded when tracing causes of inability to spell. → Foster 1911

Evidence¶

Foster 1911¶

Foster, W. T. (1911). The Spelling of College Students. The Journal of Educational Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0070538

q2 · i? · associational · r1

Error-classification analysis of 10,000 themes covering all the work of 300 Bowdoin College students, coded by five clerks with no stake in the results. The article reports "467, or 23 per cent., were due to carelessness" and excludes them from causal analysis.

"Of the 2005 errors, 467, or 23 per cent., were due to carelessness."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

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