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Can we guess your age and income, based solely on the apps on your phone?

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Re: Can we guess your age and income, based solely on the apps on your phone?

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"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." I am a male (strike 1), 50+ (strike 2), Side business takes in more than $52k (strike 3). I am married (Zillow for Mrs. Mar) and have 2 teen aged daughters (Instagram to follow them). I'll give machine learning another decade /s.

I see no evidence that they used machine learning. If they had, this thread might be less full of people saying it did worse than random.

Re: Can we guess your age and income, based solely on the apps on your phone?

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"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." I am a male (strike 1), 50+ (strike 2), Side business takes in more than $52k (strike 3). I am married (Zillow for Mrs. Mar) and have 2 teen aged daughters (Instagram to follow them). I'll give machine learning another decade /s.

Huh? It got everything except your gender correct.

Re: Can we guess your age and income, based solely on the apps on your phone?

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Pretty neat. It's always fun to look at data and find interesting correlations. It nailed it's estimate of me and I felt like I was just clicking no for almost everything.

Same here, some of the apps (like Pandora) don't even work in my country.

Re: Can we guess your age and income, based solely on the apps on your phone?

#18

"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.

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 apps on your phone?

#19

"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." I am a male (strike 1), 50+ (strike 2), Side business takes in more than $52k (strike 3). I am married (Zillow for Mrs. Mar) and have 2 teen aged daughters (Instagram to follow them). I'll give machine learning another decade /s.

Huh? It got everything except your gender correct.

Missing the age by a generation and the income by multiples is not 'correct' IMHO.
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