Pedants ARE nice people, no matter what researchers say

Is it possible to be a pedant and a pleasant person? Not according to an academic study published last month by Julie Boland and Robin Queen of the University of Michigan's psychology department. The point of their laborious and long-winded exercise was to compare the personality traits of people who could'nt be bothered about an apostrophe in the wrong place with the psychological attributes of those who react violently to written errors.