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posted by cmn32480 on Thursday November 24 2016, @01:34PM   Printer-friendly
from the bring-on-the-flames dept.

Ever wonder why iPhone users often seem to have the same personality, or why you could never understand an Android fan?

UK researchers finally developed a test that could predict what kind of cellphone a user is likely to have, and here are the conclusions:

A comparison of both Android and iPhone users revealed that iPhone users are more likely to be:

        Younger
        More than twice as likely to be women
        More likely to see their phone as a status object
        More extraverted
        Less concerned about owning devices favoured by most people

In contrast, Android users were more likely to be:

        Male
        Older
        More honest
        More agreeable
        Less likely to break rules for personal gain
        Less interested in wealth and status

The full article is paywalled but an abstract is avilable.

Now if only there was a way to separate correlation and causation...

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/11/161121144206.htm


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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 24 2016, @03:24PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 24 2016, @03:24PM (#432413)

    Pet peeve much?

    Carl Gustav Jung - Psychological Types or the Psychology of Individuation
    LONDON
    KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRUBNER & CO. LTD.
    NEW YORK: HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY
    1946

    frorm INDEX:
    Chapter X. General description of the types
    A. Introduction
    B. The Extraverted Type
    ...
    C. The Introverted Type
    ...

    Or print from 1971 as Volume 6 of collected works:
    https://books.google.cz/books/about/Psychological_Types.html?id=y7nCBQAAQBAJ [google.cz]

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 24 2016, @08:28PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 24 2016, @08:28PM (#432565)

    Whenever someone goes full dictionary pedant, there is one thing you can always count on.
    They did not read the dictionary. [oxforddictionaries.com]

    Extravert was the original spelling because: [scientificamerican.com]

    "Dr. Jung says it's ExtrAverted, because ExtrOverted is just bad latin."

    In the domain of modern psychology, 'extrAverted' is still the preferred spelling.