E-mails you send may say more about you to the reader than you intend.
Recipients of e-mails make all kinds of judgments about the sender based on the language used, according to British e-mail provider GMX. For example:
- 40% of respondents make judgements about the sender’s intelligence
- 20% makes guesses about the person’s age, and
- 16% use the language to guess the sender’s social class.
Sounds like one more reason to revise important messages before they’re sent.
Some of the study’s other interesting findings:
- 26% of people use e-mail to avoid stressful conversations, and
- 36% would use e-mail to ask someone on a date.