What about the parent who has a zillion apps courtesy of their child? so some apps are the adult's and others are the kids.
Bet that would muddy any statistical analysis.
Can we guess your age and income, based solely on the apps on your phone?
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#52"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.
It is a very sad state of affairs when it is faster to use a website than an app.
And better privacy.
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#53You are a single lady younger than 32 who makes less than $52,000/year. Wrong, wrong, wrong and, drumroll, wrong.
I got the same thing. I'm pretty sure they didn't account for security researchers who like to download free apps to hunt for vulnerabilities. Go figure.
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#54Lookout: yes = guy, no = girl
Linkedin: yes = more than $52/K year, no = less than $52K/yr.
Snapchat: yes= single,no=married
At least with my base answers.
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#55>You are a single
Sorry
> guy
Ding!
> younger than 32
No
>who makes more than $52,000/year
One out of two is ... Better than zero! I went back to the drawing board with a similar prediction system after a series of spectacular failures. I expect it's a function of how the model was trained and tested; it seems that the weights given to any specific app may be over fit. But I'm not a mathematician or statistician or anything beyond a voracious learner with an interest in this kind of thing. It's piqued my curiosity, and I'm enjoying the responses you guys are adding here. Actually, it's already made me think about how my model for my pet project may be over fitting...
(Edited to clarify "single guy" into two features)
Re: Can we guess your age and income, based solely on the apps on your phone?
#56You are a single lady younger than 32 who makes less than $52,000/year. Wrong, wrong, wrong and, drumroll, wrong.
I got the same thing. I'm pretty sure they didn't account for security researchers who like to download free apps to hunt for vulnerabilities. Go figure.
Same thing here too, for the opposite reason — said no to almost everything. I have four pages of apps installed, but only three were even on that survey.
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#57I wonder if an easier way would be through accessing your camera roll and determining age and gender through the whichever face appears the most.
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#58Every fact about you is normally a tell and sometimes just random: the apps you use, the clothes you dress, the people you know, the travels you made, etc. A fine-tuned algorithm has an high probability to guess this.
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#59After this quiz I definitely feel old: never heard of like 28 out of 32 apps
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#60"You are a married guy older than 32 who makes more than $52,000/year", I am a guy, so... 1 out of 4 I guess.