We investigated the perception and recognition of errors in a population of practitioners and academics in professional and technical communication. Specifically, we measured 303 participants’ botheration levels of 24 usage errors and then correlated those results against their ability to recognize the errors. Results indicated that practitioners were often more bothered by errors than academics and that participants’ overall botheration level might have fluctuated over the past 40 years. Participants’ botheration level also appeared to associate with their ability to identify error. Finally, we found that participants’ gender, job type, and years working in the field influence their error perception.

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分析专业传播从业者和学者的错误感知和识别

我们调查了一群从业者和学者在专业和技术交流中对错误的感知和识别。具体来说，我们测量了 303 名参与者对 24 个使用错误的困扰程度，然后将这些结果与他们识别错误的能力相关联。结果表明，从业者往往比学者更受错误困扰，而且参与者的整体困扰水平在过去 40 年中可能有所波动。参与者的烦恼程度似乎也与他们识别错误的能力有关。最后，我们发现参与者的性别、工作类型和在该领域工作的年限会影响他们的错误感知。