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Study Finds iPhone Users Genetically Superior to Everyone Else

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drewdrawscriticism
06/14/09

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They forgot to mention that we're better looking as well, or maybe it was just too obvious?
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superhappyfuntime
06/13/09

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Something seems wrong here. Shouldn't each category get smaller going left? As in, if you have an iPhone, you also have a smartphone, which is still a mobile phone...
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soggy_cheerio
06/13/09

@superhappyfuntime: No. You're misinterpreting the table.
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reluttr
06/13/09

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Hrmm isn't it possible they are only wealthy because of they mooch from their already wealthy smartphone using parents?

Plus they never state how large of a college education, how do we know the majority of the iphone owners dont just have a associates or batchlors, where the smartphone users have masters and doctorates?

Also I would like to note that there are certain university's that now require you have a iphone or ipod touch now.

Point is, phone preference doesn't necessarily mean anything. Its kinda like the argument that artists only use mac, but I know plenty of artists that prefer windows...
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reluttr
06/13/09

@reluttr: Also they do realize that the first set should equil 100% and not 169%, right? I guess it could be trying to account for people with multiple devices, but it should be based on the "most used" device shouldent it?

Also I doubt that 69% of the male population have two or more handsets.
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soggy_cheerio
06/13/09

@reluttr: You're reading the table incorrectly.
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yeags
06/13/09

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Everyone bow down to the iPhone users! They are now Gods! Give me a break. This is nothing but a biased study.
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Bokusatsu_Tenshi
06/13/09

@yeags:

A fine example of what gives "journalism" a bad face, even though I know Gizmodo isn't really journalism nor I consider so.

Using parcial biased statistics to put a title that, though ironic still tries to passes a false image of "superiority" while ignoring several other data, trying to cover an obvious advertising post for scientific analisys. Source: Appleinsider, of course.

I mean, no problem for me and other more informed people who reads Gizmodo but knows that when it comes to Apple posts, Gizmodo will always have a biased opinion.

Problem is when people who don't know about this reads a title like that.

Thus, fanboys, flamewars and all other things Gizmodo editors claim to hate, but also won't stop provoking.

Again, it's still Dan's and other Gizmodo writers choice to make such posts, but the effect of posts like this one, at least for me, is that it makes Gizmodo an untrustworthy blog for Apple/Apple competitors info.
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frigg
06/13/09

@Bokusatsu_Tenshi: If anything, Gizmodo's presentation of the research is making fun of its conclusions, encouraging anti-Apple reactions like yours from people who take the joke too seriously. Also, the research evaluates productivity based on more than whether someone accesses the internet once a week, so saying its research conclusions are "totally erroneous" is partially erroneous. Or maybe, in the fullness of the report, productivity conclusions are erroneous. Frankly, I have no idea how good or bad the research is, I haven't read it (the report costs $750!) but since it's research, and from a well known group, passing it along isn't biased one way or the other. Blaming the messenger is misunderstanding what research is.
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Digo
06/13/09

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That's a really misleading survey.

The larger the number being tested the closer to the general average you are going to get.

The number of people having mobile phones is a much bigger number than the number of people having smartphones which in turn is much bigger than the number of people with iphones. 49% of people with mobile phones is a much bigger number than 67% of people with iphones.

It's as if I tested people that have cars vs people that have an Audi A6.
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Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
06/13/09

@Digo: So, because you own an Audi A6 you're less likely to be married? Just because there are fewer Audi A6's?

Your argument rings hollow.
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GwynnCabbash
06/13/09

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are you serious? iphone users have the most income, has a college education. Well no duh. if they have money of course they're more likely to get a freakn education. so is this pretty much saying young rich douches who have cash to spend=superior?
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92BuickLeSabre
06/13/09

@GwynnCabbash: From a marketing perspective? That is correct; no one is superior to a young rich douche with cash to spend.
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Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
06/13/09

@92BuickLeSabre: And a likely educated rich douche at that.
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mGARANDEUR1
06/13/09

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I'm not convinced of these numbers. The first row doesn't really make any sense. How can 53% of males own a mobile phone, yet 59% own a smart phone? Does it mean 59% of the 53% who own a cell phone?
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Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
06/13/09

@mGARANDEUR1: You're reading the graph wrong.

It's: If you have an iphone the chance that you fall into this category is X%

They are not cumulative.
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lostlikeme
06/13/09

@mGARANDEUR1: agreed. unless it's saying 53% of males on a mobile phone. 59% of that 53% who own a mobile phone, own a smart phone... and 57% of that 59% who own a smart phone own an iphone. kind of a misleading way to do it, but that's the only way this really makes any sense considering the row percentages add up to either more than or less than 100%.
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Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
06/13/09

@lostlikeme: The rows aren't meant to add up 100%.

You're reading the damn thing incorrectly.

It is saying: If you own an iPhone you are X% likely to fall into this category. If you own a Smart Phone you are X% likely to fall into this categeory.

So, if you have an iPhone, you are 61% likely to be married. If you have an iPhone there is a 49% likelihood you have a college education.

Vs if you have a Smartphone you are 65% likely to be married.

It isn't a comparison between the items listed. It is a list of phone type followed by percentage chance that something is true about you.
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shinchan
06/13/09

@Carradine Dies of a Stroke Film at 11: Lite: I don't think you get, what mGARANDEUR1 is getting at.

If 53% of the people asked own a mobile phone. How come more people own an Iphone (an iphone being a mobile phone).

So you'd have to read it as lostlikeme interpreted it; which is a weird way of reading it.
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Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
06/13/09

@shinchan: Actually, you're a moron and reading it backwards. Look at the top. It reads: Has a mobile phone: is 53% likely to be male.

NOT the other way around.
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Kakkoister
06/13/09

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Uhhh... Percents in the columns don't add up to 100%. Fake survey?
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PinoSarpedon
06/13/09

columns dont add up to 100% because each row isnt mutually exclusive. For example you can be a Male and be Married and make $70k+

Its a cross tab so the way to read it is for example 59% of people who own a smartphone are male. 67% of people who own a iPhone make $70k plus.

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Hello Mister Walrus
06/13/09

@PinoSarpedon: Technically, it's not mutually exclusive as it does not exclude the possibility of someone owning more than one of those devices, for instance having both a Blackberry and an iPhone.

But yeah, you're interpretation of the table appears to be correct.
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Alec Loudenback
06/13/09

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Correlation versus Causation... Correlation versus Causation...
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Hello Mister Walrus
06/13/09

@Alec Loudenback: I hear BMW buyers are richer and more educated than Volkswagen buyers. They must be very clever to have made such a good choice.
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