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Android Users More Honest and Humble Than iPhone Users, Study Says (www.bgr.in)
The kind of software your phone is running can tell a lot about you, apparently. According to a new study by a team of researchers at the University of Lincoln, Android smartphone users have great levels of honesty and humility, agreeableness and openness personality traits but are seen as less extroverted than Apple's iPhone users. According to a report by IANS, via BGR: The researchers believe that this could be because iPhone users thought it was more important to have a high-status phone than Android users. The team from the University of Lincoln also found that women were twice more likely to own an iPhone than an Android device. However, most of the personality stereotypes did not occur in reality as only honesty and humility was found in greater amounts within Android users, the findings showed.
Well I don't even have a smartphone, so that makes me TEN TIMES as humble as you!
"Android users aware their device is inferior, act accordingly" /ducks
I have the evidence.
People who spend large amounts of money on jewellery are often asshats too, finds study.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
Presumably because they couldn't find enough users to create an effective sample size.
"Lack of speed can be overcome. In the worst case by patience." --Znork
And steal purses from old, helpless ladies.
I'm an Android user, and easily the most humble person I know. As Weird Al put it in Amish Paradise:
Hitchin' up the buggy, churnin' lots of butter
Raised a barn on Monday, soon I'll raise another
Think you're really righteous? Think you're pure in heart?
Well, I know I'm a million times as humble as thou art
Kudos for astonishingly useless research. That's what science is all about.
Seriously? What's with the article troll? Are the slashdot editors just trying to get a good laugh?
TFA references a "study" with no citation of the alleged study with conclusions that sound like they are straight from The Onion. No way to tell if the study was conducted with good scientific techniques and rigor or if it is just a grab for grant money or something else.
the iPhone comes with its own reality distortion filter, so.... you know..there's that.
Perhaps the real study is: How will people react to this study?
iPhone users are usually dicks, salesmen, businessmen, juvenile, "other categories overly obsessed with self image", dicks, etc.
Yes they are more honest because they don't carry phones as a status symbol to substitute a personality they don't have, but rather for the functionality.
And no they are not humble because there's plenty of Android users who spend idiotic amounts of money on phones as well. The only thing feeling like it is humbling is because lots of Android users use a phone for minimum requirement functionality. If you are gonna use the phone functions that are perfectly well supported within the range of say 150€, then it's idiotic to go beyond that line. Cost per value.
iPhone users are the humblest people on the who goddamn planet and f*ck you if you don't think so.
...when you're perfect in every way.
It's part of our infinite set of totally admirable traits, each more awesome than the last. :)
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
Android users have smaller penises as well making them more humble. But I don't think the phone is causing that.
better, worse, similar or not
What's this garbage doing here?
Really? II do not think it is a status thing. The iPhone is for followers, Android is for leaders.
I'm sorry, I've got to laugh about this because this is a matter of causality vs. correlation. There are benefits to having an apple device, there are benefits to having one of the thousand-odd varieties of an android device. True, most people who buy an ios device are buying the name; however, the same can be said for most people who by Samsung devices. Or LG devices. Or HTC devices. The general public just wants a device that can do what they want, when they want, with the least number of problems. Hence why there's this big market for cheap android devices.
Humble? Nah, that's personality, not taste in devices.
And me? I use ios and android pretty equally.
We have better, more advanced technology that actually inter-operates with other systems and devices, we know it and we don't rub it in their iFace. iProducts, just simply do not work well, end of story. They look nice, but it ends there. They do not function well, they are difficult to use any sort of advanced feature and they do not inter-operate well with anyone, including most iProducts. In other words, iProducts are great for little kids to play with because they are simplistic, you want to do anything advanced and they fail.
As depicted by Dilbert's CEO
..iPhone owners are wealthier than Android owners. See here for similar results without the silly phone angle.
Toyota drivers more honest and humble than BMW drivers
The main reason I have an iPhone has nothing to do with status. It's because I like the way it works. I had an Android phone for a couple of years, but it was noticably slower than the iPhones of colleagues and friends. The iPhone seemed snappier. Additionally, I have a Macbook, iPad, iPod, and AppleTV. It makes sense to have a phone which is compatible with that universe. Again, I don't have these devices because of whatever "status" they might impart. I have them because I like the way they work.
Besides, is there really some sort of status attached to an iPhone these days? They are ubiquitous -- even my 83-year-old father has one, and he doesn't even know what he has. He just makes calls and sends texts. If he has a problem, well, his phone has an Apple logo on it, and the Apple store has an Apple logo on it, so he knows he can go in there and some friendly person will help him with his phone. For him it's like taking your car into a mechanic. He has a GM car, so he takes it to the GM dealer when there is a problem. For him, that is how it is done. If an old fart like my dad has an iPhone, it can hardly be thought of as a status symbol.
I would like to add that I also have friends and colleagues who have Android phones. They seem happy with their phones, and that's great. I do not, in any way, feel like I am superior just because I have an iPhone.
Proverbs 21:19
The market share for Android world-wide is 80%. Its share in the USA is 60%.
Source: https://techcrunch.com/2016/05...
99% of the apple drones I run into are spoiled hipster/millennials. Do they EVER put their iPhones down? I see them all across high schools and colleges, clutching these things like a life preserver. You always see them in Starbucks, sucking up the free bandwith. Spoiled brats from birth.
Why is being 'less extroverted' portrayed as a bad thing? I know very few introverted assholes.
Laws are rules for the court, but merely a bottom bar to hit for life. Think beyond laws in your actions always.
Android User:
Oh yeah, there is NO ONE more humble than me. Absolutely no one. I don't mean to brag, but I ran across an iPhone user the other day and he was like HALF as humble as me, if that.
We also naturally are better in bed too, what with being at LEAST four inches longer.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
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Of course they have the added burden of having to stay humble despite being otherwise perfect in every aspect, that must take a lot of character integrity to do so.
Not that I would know anything about that, this headline does not concern me.
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According to a new study, X! However, most of X did not occur in reality.
So . . . "We expected to find X but didn't. Nobel Prize, please!"
Is that really the finding of this study, or is this just the typical Slashdot editorial process at work?
Freedom to fear. Freedom from thought. Freedom to kill.
I guess the War on Terror really is about freedom!
From http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_...
The results from the first study showed that Android users are perceived to have greater levels of honesty and humility, agreeableness and openness personality traits but are seen as less extroverted than iPhone users.
The results from the second study showed that most of the personality stereotypes did not occur in reality, as only honesty and humility was found in greater amounts within Android users.
I couldn't find the study. One article referenced source "Shaw H, Ellis D, Kendrick LR et al. Individual differences between iPhone and Android smartphone users. British Psychological Society. 2016."
And yet publish an article like this?
How Humble.
Then They Guess why?
"The researchers believe"??? researchers never believe, researchers say "the data shows".
I did not buy my I phone to impress. Ease of use and security.
But I could be lying?
According to the latest research on the subject, the Islamic State seems to favor Android over iPhone http://www.cnbc.com/2016/07/22...
I suppose Android makes for a more honest, humble jihad?
It turns out that Android users were asked the following question:
"Are you more honest and humble than an iPhone user?"
"Yes, yes I am"
Did the user really need the larger iPhone 6s Plus, with the maximum amount of memory? Because even that's only $949, sim free...
A sim-free iPhone 6s (very reasonable middle ground) is $749.
So I'm really curious how you reached $1200. Even with AppleCare, which is only $129, you aren't over $1100 worst case...
Did you end up getting him a top of the line Android phone? A Note7 is $879 unlocked... By Grabthars Hammer, what a savings.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
This is typical of higher ed -- wasting time and money on useless studies.
http://www.cnet.com/news/trump...
You are welcome on my lawn.
OK, first of all, this "study" is unpublished and not peer-reviewed anywhere that I can see. The link in TFA specifically states she "presented her work" at a conference. What does that mean? Poster session? Short talk? Plenary talk? Keynote talk (unlikely, as the author is still a student)!?. They make no mention of how it was received? What were the criticisms and follow up questions asked of the study author(s)?
Why, oh why do journalists keep publishing science-y articles, as if they were well-accepted truths? If only there was such a thing as journalistic malpractice.
Scientist: "My very preliminary findings may help uncover a new signalling pathway for big pharma to exploit in this one type of rare cancer."
Journalist: "Scientists announces cure for cancer!"
Call me strange but second only to lighting up a cigarette, I've always found it a turn-off if a woman pulls an iPhone out.
psychology already has a poor enough reputation when it comes to scientific credibility. It certainly doesn't need junk science like this 'study' cluttering up its landscape. This is something I'd expect to see in some laughable rag while standing in the supermarket checkout line.
Who pays for shit research like this anyway? And why?
'The Economy' is a giant Ponzi scheme whose most pitiable suckers are the youngest among us and the yet-unborn.
This is not true. Permissions in Android are now granular and can be selected which accesses are permitted for an app.
We're also more intelligent, attractive and funny.
It has to do with the way the product is advertised. Both Honda and Apple products are deliberately marketed to appeal to smug self-important people.
It's similar to the problem of testing lie-detectors: how do you measure actual lying, and not just poker-style lying in a lab? Poker means shit.
Telling a good whopper could get one in the slammer, so who's going to rat out their punishable sins to researchers?
And how do the researchers verify alleged lies? Dig up bodies in the forest?
Table-ized A.I.
security you can probably trust
(Emphasis mine) That's why walled gardens don't work. If I need another third party to check an app's security anyways, then I might as well choose my own app store. For example if you installed a bitcoin app from Apple's store in the last few months... ummm.... check your balance.
simple controls over what apps can access
Android has that now too.
This is because Android users don't have as much to be proud of.
Alex, I'll take keybindings not used by Emacs for $400....
Well I compare Iphones to hipster fad people. I know not every one is but I noticed at work and with friends, those that have Iphones tend to spend more money on a fancy car and status symbols. I also have my first app on Google play because it cots only $25 bucks for life vs $100 dollars per year. I would post it but not sure how this site is for advertising selfish plugs. Speaking of which, anyone have any ideas how I can get more downloads? I'm at 42 for the first week.
#1 Smartphone preference is not a measurement of the level of honesty of a person.
#2 The large majority of Android users would rather install pirated software full of malware than pay $1 for the original
I went with the iPhone because I didn't have to root my phone to control the communications of my own apps, and I didn't want to lock more of my life into my gmail account... that and the camera/microphone/battery life etc. I was surprised by the added stability and how I didn't feel the need to root the phone at all.
Android phones are practically subsidized by Google and most are additionally subsidized by a carrier who couldn't give a damn if you have updates or not.
On my iPhone I use offline maps, a domestic hosted mail and calendar server and duckduckgo. No Google apps, and minimal contact with the app store. It's a boring, reliable, very functional phone.
With Android, for even these basic features I would send 100% of my data to the U.S. where I have no control nor rights. Last I used Android it was difficult to *not* sync it with Google, even with your own calendaring/mail solution. Unless I go with Cyanogenmod or similar... which is a wicked time-burner.
The price difference is worth it to me. Time and privacy are expensive.
FACT: it is not "Android has that now" ... it is "Android FAKES that now".
Nothing makes one more humble than running a phone OS built entirely out of pre-shotgunned wire screening.
It's because Android users are used to being doormats. We buy high end smartphones only to have the vendor stop providing updates 2 years later. So after a while we start buying low end smart phones, only to find they have compatibility problems or vendor installed malware. Yet we keep going back to Android.
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
iPhone users are iPhags, you know it's true.
Now show us the gender distribution of Android vs iPhone
Iphone users have greater incidence of HIV than Android users.
"Android smartphone users have great levels of honesty and humility, agreeableness and openness personality traits BUT are seen as less extroverted than Apple's iPhone users." So extroversion is considered a positive character trait like honesty and humility? Nice work, America.
I humbly admit Apple sucks.
As an Android developer, I can tell you you're wrong. When I install my app and deny it permissions, it doesn't get them. Period. As the app developer, I'm the one getting the logs.
The app in question was written to test just that.
APK quotes people (including myself) without context and should not be trusted. Just thought you should know.
iPhone users are much richer than android users on average, and poor people are more honest and trustworthy than rich people. In fact, you can make people more honest and trustworthy by making them feel poor in comparison to others, and you can make people less honest and trustworthy by making them feel rich in comparison. http://theweek.com/articles/47...
Also remember Canada has 13% sales tax on top of the currency exchange. There's only 1 currency that people in the U.S know/care about.
Canada, federally, has a 5% sales tax (the Goods and Services Tax, G.S.T.). Anything more than that is provincial, and varies from 0% (Alberta) to 10% (the maritime provinces and Quebec), yielding a 5% to 15% tax.
(insert "the more you know" image here)
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Silly guy, Ontario is the only province that matters. But you're right it varies from Province to Province.
Also, Android users are smarter, brush their teeth more often, and their mother dresses them less funny. Or something.
Really, is this what passes for research these days? It reads more like marketing from Google to boost Android.