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 brad0 » Sun, Mar 06, 2016, 9:46 AM UTC

kozukumi wrote: post #89

brad0 wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looking right now at work in Edinburgh or Glasgow. Sounds like I'll need to make a move to London if I really want to earn the big salary. I work primarily in native mobile. I'm working for Amazon right now and I've worked for banks, government as well.

Yeah you won't get such high salaries up in Scotland. Outside of London I know Bristol pays well also. I think Manchester has some good things going for it also but never worked there myself. What exactly do you mean by native mobile? To me that could mean mobile device firmware or Android NDK type thing.

By native mobile I mean writing Java/objc using the mobile SDKs versus something like Cordova or phonegap. Though I have written C++ for The Sims 3 on iOS.

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

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Post by sudorossy » Sun, Mar 06, 2016, 12:30 PM UTC

pacala wrote: post #33

You are a single lady younger than 32 who makes less than $52,000/year. Wrong, wrong, wrong and, drumroll, wrong.

I got the same answer, mostly true however.

The real problem is it's a very broad answer anyway.

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

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Post by prawn » Tue, Mar 08, 2016, 9:55 PM UTC

They had me pegged as a married woman over 32 and earning more than $52k. Apart from being male, the rest is correct but there weren't many apps I had and fewer that I used (have Pinterest and Yelp but use neither).

I said yes to ESPN (though I probably have other sports apps instead). Surprised that didn't outweigh Pinterest as a gender marker?