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Android users more honest, says study

Posted on: 04/Sep/2016 11:45:28 AM
A new research paper has said that people who use Android smartphones may have greater levels of honesty and humility than iPhone users. It also said that women were twice more likely to own an iPhone than an Android Phone. The study was conducted by researchers at the University of Lincoln in the UK.

Speaking about this, the researchers said, This study provides new insights into personality differences between different types of smartphone users. Smartphone choice is the most basic level of smartphone personalisation, and even this can tell us a lot about the user.

The research included two studies of personality differences between iPhone and Android smartphone users. In the first study, the researchers asked 240 participants to complete a questionnaire about characteristic they associate with users of each smartphone brand. In the second study they tested these stereotypes against actual personality traits of 530 Android and iPhone smartphone users. The results from the first study showed that Android users are perceived to have greater levels of honesty and humility, agreeableness and openness personality traits but are seen as less extroverted than iPhone users.

The results from the second study showed that most of the personality stereotypes did not occur in reality, as only honesty and humility was found in greater amounts within Android users. However, researchers found that women were twice more likely to own an iPhone than an Android Phone.

Say the researchers, Finally, iPhone users thought it was more important to have a high status phone than Android users. It is becoming more and more apparent that smartphones are becoming a mini digital version of the user, and many of us don`t like it when other people use our phones because it can reveal so much about us. 

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