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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.
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.