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Judging from the following statistic, iPhone has officially won the smart phone war:

http://cdn.okcimg.com/blog/camera/SexAndSmartPhonesByAge.png

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I'm already jumping to conclusions about girls with iPhones here at work.

I likely jumped to those conclusions long, long ago.

However, I do like OKC in that they take tons of data and make actual conclusions about it. Regardless of whether or not it's eventually proven wrong, or (as stated above) there are some obvious discrepancies not taken into consideration, it's still cool to see overall trends in human psychology based on something so simple as how a photograph was taken.

I was rather surprised to see that (that subset of) women outnumbered men in terms of sexual activity. I wonder what their overall trends are like.

The interesting question is what's at the root of the correlation?

My guess is that it's one or more of:

1. iPhone users tend to have more money as a group and that correlates with more sex.

2. as a group they tend to be more concerned with appearances and sensual experience and sensation seeking.

3. as a group they are more impulsive.

4. Nobody wants to have sex with the Android wielding sysadmin

What about the iPhone wielding sysadmin? They do exist.

In my experience, that combination works. :)

Woah woah woah. I'm sorry but best, more money correlating to more sex is baseless. I have a hunch that the statistics probably go in the exact opposite direction. Without taking into account birth control, it's well known that birth rates and number of children tend to be much higher for lower income people than higher.

Birth rates have been decoupled from sexual activity since the 1960s at the very least. And are completely irrelevant to that fraction of the sex-having populace that are homosexual.

There is some evidence that higher-status individuals of both genders have more sex; and money is a fairly strong proxy for status in our society.

Higher birth rates doesn't imply more sex, it implies poor use of contraceptives, which you basically stated.

The trouble is that "Android Phone" is not as meaningful a category as the article makes it out to be. Nor is "Motorola Phone."

Droid Eris is not a MotoDroid is not a N1 is not a Sidekick is not a HTC Evo ...

Really, there are certain Android and Motorola phones that could have very similar demographics to the Blackberry or iPhone. Furthermore, Comparing the cameras on the phones more recent than the MotoDroid to those that came before is night and day.

It also seems a bit misleading -- I have an Android phone, but I would use my Canon SLR to have a picture of me taken and posted to a site like this.

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