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Stats Show iPhone Owners Get More Sex
An anonymous reader writes "According to OK Cupid's survey of 552,000 user pictures iPhone users have more sexual partners than BlackBerry or Android owners. By age 30, the average male iPhone user has had about 10 partners while female iPhone users have had 12. By contrast, BlackBerry users hover around 8 partners and Android users have a mere 6. As the blog's author's wryly observe: 'Finally, statistical proof that iPhone users aren't just getting f*@ked by Apple.'"
Stats are wrong.
Another way to look at the study is that iPhone owners are insufferable idiots not prepared to make the compromises necessary to stay in a long term relationship, hence the greater number of "partners".
Either way I hope they enjoy their HPV induced cervical cancer and other sexually transmitted diseases.
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
This study suggests that iPhone users report more sexual partners.
That doesn't necessarily mean more sex.
One guy who marries a woman, loves her and has mind-blowing sex with her three times a week, is clearly ahead of some guy with an iPhone who had ten one-night stands.
Futurist Traditionalism
More partners != more sex.
who readily lie to survey takers to make themselves appear "cooler" than they are. Shock and amazement to follow.
Eloi are stupid, throw morlocks at them!
Correlation != Causality
I'm trying to find a link to the study that showed homoexual men have more partners and less long term relationships.
After logging in slashdot still does not take you back to the page you were on. It's been that way for 20 years.
i guess no one here has an iphone, im guessing all you supposed iphone users were actually just trolls?
Let's start an open source project to fix this miserable discrepancy.
Actually, this says that iPhone users REPORT sex with MORE PEOPLE than other phones. Maybe they're just more concerned with their image than users of other phones? ;)
It doesn't necessarily mean they get more sex.
Last week poll was about iPad users being rich and egoistical... and now about getting more sex? ;-P
To some it up, they get ditched quickly even though they appear nice on the surface, they really are one sided assholes
I'm pretty sure most iphone users are getting plenty of same-sex partners, don't you worry.
Dilbert said it best, let me paraphrase...
A 1000% growth of a really really small number is still a really small number.
iPhones are expensive.
People who buy iPhones have a lot of money
Women are often "attracted" to rich men
iPhone owners get more sex.
Just like how dumb people get more cancer.
Dumb people smoke more.
Smoking causes cancer.
Dumb people get cancer more often.
Finally, statistical proof that iPhone users aren't just getting f*@ked by Apple
I've read some of OKC blog posts before where they analyze the trend data of their site's members. The conclusions they reach are often highly questionable if not downright incorrect most of the time. Anyone with a basic college level understanding of statistics can easily see that their analysis is usually flawed.
Some of us prefer quality over quantity - just like how the more refined and matured drinkers enjoy a single bottle of some obscure microbrew over a 24-pack of Pissweiser (Or Pissweiser Light for the vain, calorie-conscious drunkard).
Sex isn't passionate or anywhere near as enjoyable when you've got a veritable police lineup of cheap whores at your every beck and call. Sure, you may have more sexual partners but there are definite drawbacks and it cheapens the experience. Not to mention that stinging, burning feeling shortly afterward.
looking at Andriod, however... hmmm.... .
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
... and iPhone statistics?
Ten or twelve partners? Is that really the average? I've had about thirty, and that's with three periods of monogamy two, five, and ten years long. So not counting the monogamous periods, about one partner per month, obviously some short term relationships were significantly longer than this and some much shorter, and I'm not counting the occasional dry spell. And all along I thought I was a nerdy dweeb who didn't get a lot of sex. There must be a hell of a lot of people waiting until marriage and never, ever cheating to offset all the people having lots of sex, which I categorize as over 100 sex partners.
Either that, or people lie on surveys to sound more chaste than they are.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
Is there an app for that?
1 sex act per day with one partner is greater than 1 sex act per week with a different partner each week.
After Steve has lubricated their ass or cunt depending on the gender, it is easy for others.
Where as those BB users are the corporate types, for them without Viagra or the things of that nature nothing happens down there and you know in this cost cutting and firing of CEOs on suped up expense report days, it is not possible for them to afford. So they have lesser sex than iPhone users
Majority of Android users are Geeks, they have all the theoritical knowledge but practically they dont have a clue about how to masturbate let alone do anything with the opposite Gender. Atleast we should be happy that some Android users are getting something.
And thus can afford prostitutes more often then Android and Blackberry owners.
--- What?
They are hipster types who try hard to be "cool". Part of that is sleeping with people farm more indiscriminately than others. I mean on campus you see iPhones as a heavy part of the Greek scene. They are a fashion accessory, just like Uggs or anything else. Also part of that scene is random hookups.
"Wanna find someone for a one-night stand? There's an app for that!"
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
These people were doing what was necessary to acquire these stats long before having an iPhone. Therefore it is obvious that having more sex induces people to buy iPhones.
I guess this means they're more likely to say yes when asked to install a trojan?
The vibrator built into the iPhone isn't strong enough...
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
At least know I know why the acrimony from the Apple haters.
The smell of virgin is a special kind of bitter. The kind of bitter that makes nerds suddenly give a shit about what technology someone else choses to use. And they can't abide by THAT. Ho no.
Meanwhile people who get laid have no idea why the fuck the nerds would give two-shits.
Customers already trained by Apple to "just bend over and take it" get more sex... next you'll be telling me that customers used to taking it from Microsoft without even any lube get a lot more sex!
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
Of course not - they could have been having a lemonade and eating cookies while going to a church function.
Not engaging in hot unbridled steaming sex with fluids flowing everywhere. Not at all.
Apparently all of those stories about iPhone owners having to give Steve Jobs a blowjob were true.
For Males 25 to 29
For Males 30 to 34
There are differences based on race - Latinos have a median of 4.5 and African Americans of 8.3 - and sex: a quick glance at the numbers shows that a much greater percentage of women have had 1 partner (25-29 being 22.5% and 20-24 at 20.5%) than their male peers.
Sex causes blood to rush to parts of the body other than the brain. Therefore, people who deprive their brain of blood more often than others are more likely to make the poor decision to buy an iPhone.
No, there is no "-1 I'LL NEVER ADMIT BEING WRONG!!!" mod.
Well, it's been shown that Apple users tend to be bigger spenders...
If you aren't suspicious of your government's actions, you aren't doing your job as a responsible citizen.
Don't rush out and buy that iProduct just yet.. Just remember that correlation does not imply causation.
A. iPhone users tend to have less stable relationships, and go through more partners.
B. iPhone users inflate what they report more than the users of other phones, for instance because they're more concerned with looking good.
C. The set of iPhone users heavily intersects with the set of people who follow fashion trends and buys expensive gadgets, clothes, perfume, etc as a part of their strategy to attract people of the appropiate sex. Such people are very actively looking for partners, and as a result have more of them on average.
The iPhone seems to have a sort of "fashion accessory" status that other phones, even more expensive ones, don't have.
D. Combination of the above.
In any case, I doubt very much an iPhone is a ticket to getting more sex. If you're a huge nerd, getting an iPhone won't make you less of one, and you still will prove to be quite unattractive to most people the moment you open your mouth. It's more likely that it's the reverse: you already know how to attract potential partners, and the iPhone is a small part of the strategy that includes fashionable clothes, well groomed hair, appropiate manners and so on.
Let the confusion between causation and correlation begin!
they were 25 when the Iphone came out and 28 when Android came out.
Isn't this proof that sluts buy the iphone?
And for those that reached 30 before cell phones..
You don't count.
That OK cupid blog covered a lot of crap, like how a much more expensive digital camera makes you look better and therefore more likely to get a date.
And none of the statistical analysis fits with me. No amount of f-stop can make me look better, and my number of sex partners at age 30 was still zero regardless of cell-phone type.
Of course, no one ever performs a study on people that you can't neatly pidgeon-hole. Because that would be *work*.
If telephones are outlawed, then only outlaws will have telephones.
Looking back over the last few years:
If I count up the s/w that I've had while single versus the s/w that I've had while in a monogamous relationship... well, the number is way higher for the latter.
Being slutty != more sex. It just means more sex partners. Also, iPhone users lie.
Maybe it's because Android users don't have to worry about holding it wrong.
Nobody knows how to love you like--- well, you.
From "Top 10 Reasons iPhone Users Have More Sex Than Android Fans" (http://www.esarcasm.com/17069/iphone-users-sex/): #10: After getting fucked in the ass by Apple for two years, letting some random dude in for one night doesn’t seem like such a big deal. .........
#1: It turns out “I have a magical device in my pants” is actually a great pickup line.
Did iPhone users include butt-raping by Steve Jobs in this statistics?
All I see is a report from Okcupid that says most of their members use iPhones. The fact that this particular website is centered around getting people laid has nothing to do with whether any demographic within their members has more sex.
THAT explains why so many iPhone haters are on Slashdot.....
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
know how to talk to a woman in the right way to get some. Obviously you aren't going to land a supermodel if you are a geek, but there are plenty of girls who enjoy a good shag from your average joe that views it in the same way that they do.
Ignoring all the other bad statistics in this "study", this particular chart doesn't show that Iphoners "get more sex" than other phone brand owners. It says nothing about the quantity of sex. It merely says that at age 30, Iphoners are more promiscuous than other phone brand owners. Given that promiscuity is directly correlated with BMI, and inversely correlated with attractiveness, obviously we need to find out more about the weight and attractiveness of Iphoners compared to other phone brand owners.
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...because a survey conducted by only one website of people self selecting into the survey is science done well.
You might as well conclude that people who understand logic have fewer sexual partners. (Because a false statement always implies a true or false statement.)
PS: I don't reply to ACs.
iPhone users are sluts!
They've been faithful to Apple and AT&T for almost four years now.
I've been a BB and Android user for 4 years and I've only had one partner (my wife).....well, maybe two (my hand)
You'd take 10 sex partners if you could get 'em.
Yes, I would
"Lame" - Galaxar
More people that need a dating site to get laid use the iphone. This 'study' seems to only include OKCupid members. Dating site members are usually there for one reason, and it's not to "meet new people." What about iphone users that don't use dating sites?
Also, I have lots of sex with my wife, I'm not 30 yet, and I'm trying to convince her to bring some of her hot female friends in with us. No luck yet...
Oh yea, Motorola V750 Adventure. It's a stupidphone.
OK, I need an iPhone. Will an iPod Touch work? :P
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I'm guessing that people who drive the car I drive get more as well, simply because more people buy my car for the badge on the front than for the fact that it's a fun car to drive. Likewise, more people probably buy an iPhone for the fact that it's, well, an expensive, trendy device, than for the fact that it's a legitimately awesome piece of technology (especially when first introduced).
See title.
Is this measured by specific accelerometer motion data?
$ man woman *
-bash:
Statistics aren't supposed to apply to individuals, but to the whole group.
The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.
Is the profile person the same person who took the photo? This is assuming that someone else with an iPhone didn't take the picture and give the photo to the profile poster. I think a better conclusion would be iPhone owners take pictures of sluttier people.
Shouldn't the study explain to /. readers what sex is rather than confusing them?
Hasn't worked for me even once. Anyone want to help me start a class action law suit? (Female replies only, please.)
I'm an Android user, and I got laid last night. By a remarkable coincidence, so did my wife, and she doesn't even own a "smart phone"!
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
And that's all I have to say about that.
The poll must be accurate since nobody on a dating site would ever lie about themselves, right?
So they showed a bunch of horny people 2 pictures to choose from. One holding an iphone and one holding some other phone. And that's supposed to mean iphone owners get laid with more partners? WTF? Am I the only one who finds the "research" absurd?
So basically iPhone users have fscked their brains out? Well, there's a surprise!
(it's a joke, folks)
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So basically what they're saying is that you should avoid any chick with an iPhone cause she's not only pretentious, she's a whore too. Sounds like sound advice to me.
Awesome, I'm doing even better than the average iPhone user. I love my Symbian:)
You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
Women have more partners than men do! Sluts!
I didn't have a cellphone until about 5 years ago and I had 26 partners at that time. Going for a one per year average ;)
Note to self: don't buy an Android, Blackberry or iPhone.
Oh, God, Lionel.
You have been hurt.
You have been hurt by somebody, that much is clear.
Who hurt you?
Who hurt you? Who hurt you?
Who hurt you? Who hurt you?
I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
So basically what they're saying is that you should avoid any chick with an iPhone cause she's not only pretentious, she's a whore too. Sounds like sound advice to me.
Oh, God, Lionel.
You have been hurt.
You have been hurt by somebody, that much is clear.
Who hurt you?
Who hurt you? Who hurt you?
Who hurt you? Who hurt you?
I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
Alternate conclusions from these results:
Iphone users are more likely to exaggerate or overcompensate. Iphone users have a greater fear of commitment.
It's about as verifiable/falsifiable as any of the numbers and other conclusions you could draw from this 'study'.
That's all that survey really means; and it's not really a surprise.
iPhone users are sluts.
More money, more sex. No surprise.
iPhone users change "rule of x3" to "rule of x9".
Whores buy iPhones.
Cum Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc.
get more sex or just lie about it more? The other question is how much is OK Cupid getting paid to promote a iphone from apple?
We cannot solve problems with the same thinking that got us there - A Einstein(paraphrased)
... or something like that.
Lessee; my wife has an iPhone, and I have a G1 (Android) phone. Should I infer from this that she's getting more sex than I am?
Those who do study history are doomed to stand helplessly by while everyone else repeats it.
At a bar ...
Girl: Are you an iPhone user?
Man1: Yeah, cool eh?
Girl: Eeewww.
At home ...
Daughter: Dad, can you get me an iPhone?
Dad: No! You're still young for that.
Allow you mind to stroll a bit and dream up a very pleasurable scenario ... the android user need not to dream because he or she is doing ... and the more daring ones are recording or streaming. Android users are too busy having sex and strutting confidently to even notice a survey. =P
-Fiend-
Multiple partners |= more sex. Multiple partners = Less likely to commit and multiple partners = higher std risk! I personally have had 1 partner in the last 3 years. I'm still with her. We both have android. Maybe android = monogamy? The data seems to agree...
there is no app for sex, i double checked.
And none of the statistical analysis fits with me. No amount of f-stop can make me look better, and my number of sex partners at age 30 was still zero regardless of cell-phone type.
Wrong,
No amount of f-stop can make you look better in real life....
The single most important thing in the online dating game is the first impression. On a website there are only two tools available to you to make that first impression.
1. Your written profile.
2. Your photograph.
Anyone can write a good profile.
Just take your time for it. Read, re-read, adjust. Don't rush it, take a couple of days to work on it so you have time to make sure it's well written, and perfectly targeted at the demograph you'd like to meet.
Your picture is even more important since it's the very first thing people look at when visiting your profile.
The difference between having a normal, average, shot and good quality photo is huge.
I've been dating via datingsites for a long time, for shits-n-giggles, to get laid, to just meet other persons, etc etc. I basically just like the game and the challenge of it.
I'm a average looking guy and I guess I get a average amount of replies/succesrate.
At one point a friend of mine, a professional photographer, wanted to experiment with some new techniques and asked if I could pose for a couple of shots.
They turned out te be quite good, gave me a bit of a "rough" look and I started using pictures of that session in my datingprofiles. The results were quite staggering. The amount of replies and comments I got on my profile shot through the roof, four times as much as before when I used just a average pic.
In online dating a good first impression isn't winning half the battle, it's winning 75% of the battle.. The steps from having a few messages send back and forth to a actual date is pretty easy after that.
Lesson learned: Looks matter, A LOT, and they can be manipulated..
1. write a good profile
2. get yourself decent pictures
3. .
4. profit
No "????" at 3 because you can skip that step if done right.
Oh, and get yourself a iPhone ;-)
Life starts at the end of your comfort zone.
According to this, it would seem that people who are more promiscuous choose iPhone. Of course, "more sex" sounds like "more fun", but promiscuity may simply mean that a person is more superficial and less willing to commit themself - ie less responsible and thoughtful, perhaps.
And perhaps this agrees well with the idea that if you are superficial, you will just grab the iPhone, because "it is cool", because "everyone says so". Whereas if you are less superficial you look at all phone models available and buy the one that seems to give you best value for money - which isn't the iPhone.
Just speculating, idly, as it were.
And none of the statistical analysis fits with me. No amount of f-stop can make me look better
A good photographer can make you look better in a photo.
A good photographer is more likely to adjust the f-stop for shallow depth of focus, in a portrait.
There's the source of the correlation.
Also, DSLRs don't inherently take better photographs; but good photographers do, and are more likely to use a DSLR.
This is nothing more that a stupid advertisement for an iPhone, for christ's sake it's just a bloody tool.
Maybe Android users are generally more tech-savvy and remove the EXIF data from their jpegs before uploading them. Or maybe that's just me.
As an iphone owner, I want to apologize for bringing down the average, because I don't have any partners right now. Either that, or some iPhone owner needs to thank me because he's getting 20 partners to make up for my lack of any partners. So either I'm part of the problem or someone is benefiting at my loss. Either way, I'm not feeling as happy about this report as I should be.
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Maybe the Android users are a bit more choosy than the iPhone users. Or maybe more committed to their relationship(s).
but in the 16 months I've owned one I've had five new play partners.
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and the questionnaire supplying that number is a private one that you typically answer early in the life of your account. Nobody sees that number. None of this means that adherents of the Apple Lifestyle (tm) are not maladaptive in other ways that lead to them getting laid more.
Do I really need to say that I had sexual relations with well over a dozen women between the ages of 16 to 30? It's probably not in my best interest.
It chases off the people who can't tell Disney from real life. A positive effect, IMHO.
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