Android Users 12% More Likely To Own Pets, And Other Pointless Survey Findings

Normally we don’t like to give much credence to PR stunt surveys, but Hunch polled 15,000 people — FIFTEEN THOUSAND — and found some surprising results. Did you know that iPhoners eat rice bubbles, and Android-droids prefer Cheerios?

Other questions were asked of the large pool of people too: apparently iPhone users are 50 per cent more likely to have used the internet prior to 1992 (liars, the lot of them!), 60 per cent more likely to own American Express cards and Android users 12 per cent more likely to own pets, and 100 per cent more likely to be PC users. And BlackBerry users? Well, they tend to be more well-travelled than the other platform users, but surprisingly more liberal.

In other findings, the survey found that women were more likely to prefer the Windows Phone OS. Windows phone users were also politically middle of the road, but also extroverted. BlackBerry users were evenly split among men and women, were politically liberal, but more likely to be introverted. Check out all the other random bits of findings — including preferred ice cream flavour! — in the infographic down below.

I should probably remind you that the reason companies perform surveys is usually to drum up attention or traffic to their product, rather than conduct any actual scientific work, so give Hunch that pay-off they so obviously want by visiting their site: [Hunch via Electronista]

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    TSH

    Wednesday, August 17, 2011 at 11:44 AM

    Makes me wonder just how much Nintendo knows about its Wii users, with the “everybody votes” channel.

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    Nate

    Wednesday, August 17, 2011 at 2:06 PM

    So, based on the information collected, it looks like iPhone users are a bunch of pretentious wankers

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    Penmonicus

    Wednesday, August 17, 2011 at 3:03 PM

    Eh. “Here’s a random bunch of findings we made up with random data!”

    That has made me want to pay even less attention to other statistics than before.

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    Mojo

    Wednesday, August 17, 2011 at 3:51 PM

    This could very well be classic cases of false correlations, because basically everything here seems to relate more to the fact that android users are younger. Freakonomics anyone?

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    Quin

    Wednesday, August 17, 2011 at 4:28 PM

    Weird. Most of these findings go against my anecdotal evidence. But anecdotal evidence is less powerful I suppose.

    Most of the iPhone users I know are trend-followers, don’t know much about technology, and are relatively unsophisticated in their entertainment choices.

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      Hmm

      Wednesday, August 17, 2011 at 9:26 PM

      That sounds just like ma grandma. Except for trend-followers.

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    Stew

    Thursday, August 18, 2011 at 12:10 PM

    I’m no Statistician-ologist-ientist, but the following figures sound kinda impossible/unbelievable…

    iPhone users “122% more likely to prefer a sleek device that does just a few things”

    Android users 100% more likely to be PC users
    iPhone users 100% more likely to be MAc users

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