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"Pew: Everyone Buys Android, Rich, Educated People Buy iPhones"

http://www.wired.com/business/elsewhere/pew-everyone-buys-an...

"Nielsen: Android users slightly less wealthy and less educated than iPhone users."

http://www.nielsen.com/us/en/newswire/2010/iphone-vs-android...

"Report: Rich People Prefer iThings"

http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/26/report-rich-people-prefer-i...

"Android Is Popular Because It's Cheap, Not Because It's Good"

http://gizmodo.com/5977625/android-is-popular-because-its-ch...

"RJI Mobile Media News Consumption Survey: iPhone users richer & better-educated than Android users"

http://www.androidauthority.com/are-iphone-users-richer-bett...

"Forrester: iPhone users are more educated and affluent"

http://appleinsider.com/articles/09/06/12/new_study_shows_ip...

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He isn't disagreeing with what seems like a generally accept notion, he's disagreeing with the presentation of the data and the conclusion reached in the article.

It only consists of many geo-tagged tweets on mobile devices from many users. There are a lot of variables here without any form of control. It is a neat experiment, but you are not able to verifiably determine any kind of numbers from these maps.

Perhaps maybe there are the same number of Android phones and iPhone (and Blackberry, etc), but the iPhone users tweet 50x more - does this map take it into account? We don't know either way. What phone are they using? Maybe a lot of people in Washington are using Samsung S3s, which aren't cheap Android phones.

Bottom line, you provided nothing to the discussion other than a quick Google search without considering the many variables obfuscated within the map.

> but the iPhone users tweet 50x more

That still doesn't provide an explanation for why the data is so segregated by location.

Anyway I agree that the article's conclusion is a little overreaching, but it's still very interesting that they were able to find such a strong correlation with the data they had. Makes you wonder what other unexpected correlations can be divined from the firehose.

There are approximately 1.4 times as many iPhone tweets as Android tweets (about 1.6 million yesterday vs. about 1.1 million). It would be nice if the tweet metadata included more information about which Android model a tweet came from, but it doesn't, so all we have is the big trend.

> Perhaps maybe there are the same number of Android phones and iPhone (and Blackberry, etc), but the iPhone users tweet 50x more - does this map take it into account? We don't know either way. What phone are they using? Maybe a lot of people in Washington are using Samsung S3s, which aren't cheap Android phones.

a few outliers does not disprove the general trend presented in the article.

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