If I'm not mistaken, iOS apps aren't allowed to see what other apps are installed, is that correct?
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Can we guess your age and income, based solely on the apps on your phone?
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#42"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.
Based on the fact that the only app I have from the set is Google Maps, we're in the same group.
Except I'm not married, and not a lady.
Facebook has decided I'm a hispanic teenager based on my user profile.
And then the industry wonders why ad blockers are exploding.
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#43You are a single lady younger than 32 who makes more than $52,000/year
Wrong, wrong, correct!, wrong.
As I suspected, Etsy throws them :) Remove that and they figure out I'm a guy. I guess they can't tell the difference between a single lady buying herself things on Etsy and a guy buying his girlfriend something on there, so, no they can't.
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#44It got me correct, but not my income. I use the Yelp website, never their app :) Goes for a few of them in their list, as well.
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
Huh? It got everything except your gender correct.
Missing the age by a generation and the income by multiples is not 'correct' IMHO.
> There are 16 possible results, based on your gender (male/female), your age (over/under 32), your marital status (married/single) and your income (over/under $52,000).
They weren't testing at that level of granularity.
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#46The 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
Exact same result. I have five screens of apps on my phone yet those two and Uber are the only apps I have from the quiz.
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#47If I'm not mistaken, iOS apps aren't allowed to see what other apps are installed, is that correct?
It's nuanced, but you can use techniques like app URL scheme querying to determine what is installed. [1] People will be replying to you with information from 2011—today, it is generally not possible to query for a large number of installed apps this way. So generally, the answer is no.
Without going into much detail, the state of the art uses Facebook in a peculiar way to determine which _relevant_ apps are installed, relevant meaning high grossing (Clash of Clans, Spotify, Tinder are examples).
[1] http://useyourloaf.com/blog/querying-url-schemes-with-canope...
Re: Can we guess your age and income, based solely on the apps on your phone?
#48This might as well be a joke quiz you share results of on Facebook it's so wildly inaccurate.
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#49They need a box for "I've never even heard of this app" that would allow them to better predict I'm an old curmudgeon who is just fine with missing out on the latest trends.
Instead I'm a twenty-something single woman making more than $52k.
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
Missing the age by a generation and the income by multiples is not 'correct' IMHO.
They only said they would guess over/under for each of those thresholds, so no, it was correct.
True. I skipped that. I'll pay more attention to the text going forward.