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Re:Can we guess your age and income, based solely on the app... by marchelzo on Saturday March 05, 2016 @01:04PM (#11230223)
"You are a married lady older than 32 who makes more than $52,000/year You're either a married, middle-aged lady ... or you use your phone like one."

19 year old male. The only apps that I have on their list are YouTube and Google Maps.

Re:Can we guess your age and income, based solely on the app... by gregmac on Saturday March 05, 2016 @02:47PM (#11230729)
Yep, identical result, though I'm male, 32+ and 52k+.

I do actually use a very small handful of the website versions of some of these (eg, I have been to Walmart's website, I subscribe to some tumblr RSS feeds, I (very occasionally) use Facebook, and I listen to stuff on soundcloud every now and again)..

I generally don't install an App unless there's a very compelling reason to. Most of the time, the App version is going to irritate me with notifications I don't care about, and ask for permissions ranging from questionable to obscene (some game needs access to view all contacts, photos and use my microphone? yeah... no thanks).

Re:Can we guess your age and income, based solely on the app... by lmitchell on Saturday March 05, 2016 @01:24PM (#11230330)
Well that's interesting - the only difference between you and I was YouTube, and I'm a married man over 32 making 52,000+. (I have YouTube because Google installed it by default on my phone but I disabled it so I didn't count - also, I'm a 23-year old male who makes a lot less than 52,000/year :D )
Re:Can we guess your age and income, based solely on the app... by Splines on Saturday March 05, 2016 @01:17PM (#11230290)
I got the same result but also have Yelp installed. I'm a facebook user but m.facebook.com is so much better than the native app.
Re:Can we guess your age and income, based solely on the app... by Normal_gaussian on Saturday March 05, 2016 @01:34PM (#11230380)
It is a very sad state of affairs when it is faster to use a website than an app.

And better privacy.

Re:Can we guess your age and income, based solely on the app... by michaelmior on Saturday March 05, 2016 @02:46PM (#11230721)
YouTube and Google Maps are pretty bad signals for Android users since they come preinstalled on the majority of phones.
Re:Can we guess your age and income, based solely on the app... by praneshp on Saturday March 05, 2016 @01:12PM (#11230264)
"Either you're a single, middle-aged dude... or you use your phone like one."

I guess the latter is true, for their definition of single, middle-aged dude.

Re:Can we guess your age and income, based solely on the app... by xivzgrev on Saturday March 05, 2016 @01:09PM (#11230250)
I got that too. Lot of people seem to be saying that here.
Re:Can we guess your age and income, based solely on the app... by atirip on Saturday March 05, 2016 @01:17PM (#11230291)
Same. Only male. Correct result.

The only app i have is Facebook.