either that, or it's because the internet encourages people to be passive aggressive but polite, which is a new way to fight online.
it's a problem of being in front of a screen for too long, a lot of people always want to be right, and they treat scientific accuracy like it's a religion.
nitpicking is the second worse thing after online trolling
If 90% of people exhibit some characteristics of the autism spectrum, shouldn't we start to consider the people with none as the ones worthy of a label? Like people with true pitch. We give them a label, not people with less than perfect pitch.
Perhaps pedantry is like true pitch or "perfect" vision. It's actually a good thing. Even if it annoys people who don't have it. I wonder if people with true pitch go through life cringing on the inside every time they hear a wrong note. But they learn to never let on that they notice.
Perhaps the part of pedantry that puts a person on the autism spectrum is not so much the noticing as it is the voicing--the seeming inability to control the expression and calling out a correction instead of just letting it slide.
I've heard some people describe the compulsion something along the lines of "I don't think of it that way, I just noticed something they said was incorrect and so I presented them the correct information", often assuming it would be appreciated.
I mean, it's probably good for engineers in the engineering room, but the culture outside of maker's spaces probably won't consider it smashing conversation.
You are simply wrong. This is a well demonstrated reality: We have more myopia than we used to. It probably (as in, initial studies are showing) that it has to do with getting enough sunlight.
Pedantry