According to a study, smarter people use iPhones

[Poohy14]

I know a lot of people who have a iPhone but are really really dumb. Don't know if I can actually say this is true, but I shall never believe it.

[Stomplar]

what a dumb study. 

[SSOB]

Nobody mentioned yet?

 

Especially in the US

 

Money = Education = Smartness.

 

And guess what, if you got rich parents chances are big that your household is using Apple devices throughout, meaning a higher chance that you, the kid, will own an iPhone.

[Victorious Secret]

I'm glad we can judge someone's intellect based on the devices they prefer.

 

The 12 year olds on this forum (and the internet at large) need to feel good about themselves somehow, so why not tie self worth to what phone you use? 

High school mentalities never ended. They just grew on the internet and became 'cool'. 

[Scheer]

The first thing I learned my freshman year of college was that you don't have to be smart to get a degree, and college is way easier than your high school teachers lead you to believe.

 

I also watched several extremely smart people drop out of college... Most were for personal/family reasons, and a few because there was no challenge and they lined up very good jobs already.

 

College degrees just don't mean what they used to IMO.

[Dabombinable]

This statement is idiotic and ignorant. You are saying, "No one should be excited for something? I agree that waiting in line for a week or more is extremely unproductive but very few people actually do that. Almost everyone lines up early in the morning or stays up all night which isn't that outlandish. You get to talk about technology with other people in line just as passionate as yourself and if you don't wait in line you will likely wait weeks up to a month to get the phone because they sell out. 

 

People are allowed to get excited for things. I'm sure you get excited when you get a new phone. 

There is nothing wrong about getting excited over something, but going to those extremes is idiocy. Its not like Apple won't stop making them (until the next model comes out). An I am passionate about technology, I'm just not at the point where I must have the 'latest and greatest' straight away. Heck, I waited 13 years to replace my P3 Desktop, and I did that so I'd have a replacement that was an actual upgrade. An the last time I got a new phone was just over 14 years ago when I got my Sony Ericson K750i in 2005. Even after all this time it has survived countless falls, and still has its original battery lasting through 3 days of use. Until a smartphone can match or exceed the expectations I have after using such a reliable phone, I won't be replacing it (the k750i is a very early smartphone, internet, capable of 3d games, Bluetooth, emails etc).

[LAwLz]

The first thing I learned my freshman year of college was that you don't have to be smart to get a degree, and college is way easier than your high school teachers lead you to believe.

 

I also watched several extremely smart people drop out of college... Most were for personal/family reasons, and a few because there was no challenge and they lined up very good jobs already.

 

College degrees just don't mean what they used to IMO.

That depends on which degree you are aiming for. Sure you can probably sleep though classes about art and stuff, but there is no way you are going to get a degree involving lots of math or other hard subjects without spending a lot of sleepless night studying.

[SIGSEGV]

Wrong, smarter people build their own phones

[Slash003]

According to a new study, more and more useless studies are being produced!

[PhantomChevron]

Who the eff cares what phone or os you guys use anymore? Both contain basically similar apps and both do bloody texting, calling and web surfing

[Guest Kloaked]

Wrong, smarter people build their own phones

 

Filthy casuals who buy pre-built phones.

[RagnarokDel]

Education != intelligence

[Trik'Stari]

There are a LOT of things I would like to say about this.

 

None of them are polite at all.

[NickTheMajin]

There is nothing wrong about getting excited over something, but going to those extremes is idiocy. Its not like Apple won't stop making them (until the next model comes out). An I am passionate about technology, I'm just not at the point where I must have the 'latest and greatest' straight away. Heck, I waited 13 years to replace my P3 Desktop, and I did that so I'd have a replacement that was an actual upgrade. An the last time I got a new phone was just over 14 years ago when I got my Sony Ericson K750i in 2005. Even after all this time it has survived countless falls, and still has its original battery lasting through 3 days of use. Until a smartphone can match or exceed the expectations I have after using such a reliable phone, I won't be replacing it (the k750i is a very early smartphone, internet, capable of 3d games, Bluetooth, emails etc).

 

All I'm saying is it's stupid to say, "Oh you woke up early to get an iPhone? Haha you're a retard!". No they're just excited to get their new phone and don't want to wait a month to get it. They'd rather wait a few hours in line and get one that day and talk to other people also excited to get their new phone. To write them all off as idiots is ignorant. 

 

If someones waiting a week for it then by all means judge them for being an unproductive fuck. But if you're just waking up early (which most of them do) leave them alone. 

[cooperb21]

Not really guys this makes perfect sense to me with Apple and its premium price tag richer people will buy the product and usually a rich person will have a higher IQ then someone who has lower income its just how thing work.  So people who cant afford an iphone get an android so they get an increase in less smart people. 

[Strawpietro]

I like both, what does it makes me? 

[zappian]

Sorry but this is the most retaded study ever.

Have you ever heard that correlation doesn't imply causality?

I can relate two random stats as well.

 

 

Look at me mommy im a scientist!

[TAK]

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[Victorious Secret]

According to study, smarter people don't trust every study that gets thrown their way.

 

I trust and don't trust you. 

 

The first thing I learned my freshman year of college was that you don't have to be smart to get a degree, and college is way easier than your high school teachers lead you to believe.

 

I also watched several extremely smart people drop out of college... Most were for personal/family reasons, and a few because there was no challenge and they lined up very good jobs already.

 

College degrees just don't mean what they used to IMO.

 

Sure, an arts degree that ends with you serving me my overpriced latte is worthless. I wish I could be sad about saying that, but I can't. A lot of people I know that went down into arts and failed to get into law/business are now the ones I can't make eye contact with if I see them because I know they blew 4 years and 40 grand for a degree that can be used to wipe my dogs ass and all they have to show for it is debt, bleak outlooks and "spiritual awareness of the world". 

I wish the bank accepted those things as currency and I wish I could have a successful life with that. But you rarely can, and people like that put themselves at such a disadvantage in life. 

Your other faculties? Still have some prestige left in them. Sciences is slowly getting abused, but business and engineering are pretty good faculties to be in. Of course, my oncology degree will never really go out of style and it took brains that...if I'm honest, a vast majority of the population doesn't have and it takes perseverance that far too many people lack.

I might not have been born a genius, but my work ethic made me one. 

[Artorias]

You know what's the biggest irony here? Is that, those "Smart" & "Rich" people hate using products that are made in China. Never knowing they're using one.

[RZeroX]

This was a silly study to do.

[Scheer]

Your other faculties? Still have some prestige left in them. Sciences is slowly getting abused, but business and engineering are pretty good faculties to be in.

 

I guess I'm looking at it from a very narrow point of view so I likely really don't know what I'm talking about  but I guess the main reason I say that was I went to college for structural engineering. A field that is supposed to be for the above average guy, and I literally slept through the first year as my high school engineering prep course went well above and beyond anything we ever did in the college courses. My girlfriend got pregnant so I quit university during the second year and came back home to work for the family, and enrolled in the community college for drafting. On the first day the professor has everyone take the final test of each of the three drafting specialties so he has a rough idea of what you know and I nearly aced all of them. Architectural is my weakness and was my worst grade with a low 90's, don't remember exactly what it was. Soooo on my first day I could pass the bachelor's final with my high school education.

 

Then after realizing the current state of college, while working for the family I had to go get certified on Ceragon radios. At the training course my uncle and I were the only two people out of 30-ish that did not have RF Engineering degrees, at the end my uncle scored the highest and I was in third. I was 20 with less than 5 years of experience in the industry and scored higher than 27 RF Engineers on a microwave theory course...

 

Now the above likely makes me sound like a pompous know it all, but the kicker is that I was bottom of the AP group. I never struggled through school, but definitely was not top of the class material.

 

It was mainly a shock how easy college was compared to high school is what I'm getting at, but it could have just been my experience.

 

EDIT: Alright, I really sound like a douche... but its the best I can think of to get the point across at what I think about most degrees. There obviously are exceptions and plenty of extremely talented people out there with degrees, but making a correlation between something and having a degree is dumb. And I really need to find another hobby so I don't waste time on pointless posts like this... lol 

[LegendKillerRG]

Hmmm, without jailbreak, idk if I'm ganna keep my iPhone 6 Plus... Almost everyone I know has a smartphone. They rarely let their phone out of their sight, and they’re constantly staring at the display, ignoring the world around them. Most of them don’t think twice about what’s making it tick, only what it can do. And most of them hardly have anything installed and only use about 10 to 15 percent of it’s total potential.

[Imabigmac]

Who the eff cares what phone or os you guys use anymore? Both contain basically similar apps and both do bloody texting, calling and web surfing

Yeah, really. There is good part and bads parts of all phone OS's and well it comes to user preference.  

[mr moose]

usually a rich person will have a higher IQ then someone who has lower income its just how thing work.

 

Got something to prove this?   It is well known that wealthier people have access to better education which usually lands them in either better jobs or in social circles that assist in them getting better jobs (not what you know but who).  This does not prove that "richer" people are more intelligent.

 

Some reading:

 

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289607000219