Can we guess your age and income, based solely on the apps on your phone? • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by praneshp » Sat, Mar 05, 2016, 6:12 PM UTC

marchelzo wrote: post #10

"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.

"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 apps on your phone?

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Post by venomsnake » Sat, Mar 05, 2016, 6:14 PM UTC

> You are a married lady older than 32 who makes more than $52,000/year

Good to know that married ladies have older than 32 have squeakymail and keychain on their phones. See - pgp is not that hard after all.

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

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Post by jamiepenney » Sat, Mar 05, 2016, 6:14 PM UTC

Got me 100% right, which is weird because I figured the lack of apps on my phone would be a problem (I have a windows phone so there's a lot missing). Sounds like it wasn't too accurate for the rest of you though.

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

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Post by zippergz » Sat, Mar 05, 2016, 6:15 PM UTC

Apparently I'm a single lady under 32 (wrong on both counts).

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

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Post by andrethegiant » Sat, Mar 05, 2016, 6:15 PM UTC

If I'm not mistaken, iOS apps aren't allowed to see what other apps are installed, is that correct?

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

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Post by lmitchell » Sat, Mar 05, 2016, 6:16 PM UTC

zippergz wrote: post #24

Apparently I'm a single lady under 32 (wrong on both counts).

Haha I'm married (wrong), over 32 (wrong by about ten years), and make more than 52,000/year (wrong by more than I'd like to admit as an intern :D)

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

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Post by Splines » Sat, Mar 05, 2016, 6:17 PM UTC

marchelzo wrote: post #10

"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 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 apps on your phone?

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Post by atirip » Sat, Mar 05, 2016, 6:17 PM UTC

marchelzo wrote: post #10

"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.

Same. Only male. Correct result.

The only app i have is Facebook.

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

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Post by Keats » Sat, Mar 05, 2016, 6:17 PM UTC

"You are a married guy older than 32 who makes more than $52,000/year"

Not really no, granted I ticked no to all the boxes apart from youtube/maps that comes with android

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

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Post by my5thaccount » Sat, Mar 05, 2016, 6:18 PM UTC

The only two apps I had in the list were Youtube and Google Maps, both are installed at the factory and it guessed: You are a married guy older than 32 who makes more than $52,000/year