Negative People Better At Replying to Emails

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I guess telling someone to screw off is easier than writing a shiny-happy e-mail.

The engineers at Contactually, a referral marketing platform, analyzed more than 100 million email conversations and found something surprising. People who tend to use positive, upbeat language in their messages—like “care” and “amazing”—only respond to 47 percent of their emails within 24 hours. Those who more frequently use negative words, like “missed” and “stupid,” respond to a healthy 64 percent of messages within a day. That’s 36 percent more than their shiny happy counterparts.
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I never respond to anything most the time... Not sure why, I just write the reply then never get around to sending it... :confused:
 
I would guess that negative people are more driven to seize opportunities to spread negativity.
 
I actually sometimes put autoreply with "I'm busy,I'll respond within 48 hours"...

To my credit, I respond to every single email that requires my response.
 
Which is why the first thought in my head during a E-Mail reply is George St. Pierre when he responds, "I am noat eempressed weeth your pearformuhnce..."
 
It shows positive people... really care about stupid people. It's probably why you've asked yourself this question... Why aren't they answering my emails? They're not answering your email clearly shows positive people are rude and inconsiderate because they must be saying to themselves... what a dumb email.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. -Albert Einstein

And we all know positive people have NO limits. ;)
 
I know quite a few people who's emails always come off as bland and inoffensive (even if they're not) because they spend so much time trying to craft each one as to not offend anybody. They can spend 5-10 minutes agonizing over the wording of an email while I've replied to five or six. It is no wonder that their response percentages are so low.

Just using happy, bright language doesn't mean you're not about to stab someone in the back. Matter of fact the "in your face" folks are the least likely to sabotage you or backstab. They're honest about their intentions. The folks that act nice are the ones you have to watch out for because they could be talking about you behind your back while acting very nice to your face. I'll take the blunt, rude guy any day of the week. You know where you stand with those people.
 
Think study and research money are better spent elsewhere, how tell me again how does analyzing emails can help the human race? yep, I didn't think so.
 
Ididar said:
I know quite a few people who's emails always come off as bland and inoffensive (even if they're not) because they spend so much time trying to craft each one as to not offend anybody. They can spend 5-10 minutes agonizing over the wording of an email while I've replied to five or six. It is no wonder that their response percentages are so low.

Just using happy, bright language doesn't mean you're not about to stab someone in the back. Matter of fact the "in your face" folks are the least likely to sabotage you or backstab. They're honest about their intentions. The folks that act nice are the ones you have to watch out for because they could be talking about you behind your back while acting very nice to your face. I'll take the blunt, rude guy any day of the week. You know where you stand with those people.
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In my experience the ruder ones are more likely to CC half the company, including your boss, and make a bunch of inflammatory and exaggerated statements as a tactic to get things done their way. Being polite and diplomatic takes careful thought and skill. Being rude is g generally much easier.
 
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