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Android Users More Honest and Humble Than iPhone Users, Study Says (www.bgr.in)

Posted by msmash on from the your-phone dept.

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.

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  1. Oh yeah? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well I don't even have a smartphone, so that makes me TEN TIMES as humble as you!

    1. Re:Oh yeah? by Austerity+Empowers · · Score: 4, Funny

      I bet you're not even vegan!

    2. Re:Oh yeah? by fahrbot-bot · · Score: 4, Funny

      Well I don't even have a smartphone, so that makes me TEN TIMES as humble as you!

      Ya, but do you, or your feature phone, even lift?

      --
      It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
  2. alternate headline by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Android users aware their device is inferior, act accordingly" /ducks

  3. Obvious by AmiMoJo · · Score: 5, Funny

    People who spend large amounts of money on jewellery are often asshats too, finds study.

    --
    const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
    SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
  4. Windows Phone not Included by Talderas · · Score: 4, Funny

    Presumably because they couldn't find enough users to create an effective sample size.

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    "Lack of speed can be overcome. In the worst case by patience." --Znork
  5. This actually makes sense by TomR+teh+Pirate · · Score: 4, Funny

    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

  6. But on the other hand.. by pablo_max · · Score: 4, Funny

    the iPhone comes with its own reality distortion filter, so.... you know..there's that.

  7. Americans are 25% less humble than rest of world by JoeyRox · · Score: 3, Funny

    The market share for Android world-wide is 80%. Its share in the USA is 60%.

    Source: https://techcrunch.com/2016/05...

  8. We're also by Hevel-Varik · · Score: 4, Funny

    We're also more intelligent, attractive and funny.