But, it should be said, we love you in spite of yourselves… There’s a website I recommended a long time ago called Hunch.com and it serves up thousands of simple questions for you to answer. The process isn’t as exciting as a kitten picture of the day, but the results of the information the site gathers can be pretty interesting – recently: The rematch of Mac vs. PC people based on their answers to Hunch.com’s questions about almost everything!
Infographics are one of my favorite things. After women, of course. But while conversation with a gal might result in a make-or-break quiz, skimming the pictures on an infographic lets me just get to the stuff I like. Here’s where the inflammatory post title comes from: “Mac people are 13% more likely than PC people to say they want to be ‘perceived as unique and different to make my own mark.’” That alone ain’t too bad. Now hold that result in the light of this result…
PC people are 33% more likely than Mac people to say that two random people are more different than alike where Mac people are 21% more likely to say that strangers are more the same rather than different. So, “every one’s the same, except for me,” says Mac.
The Tolerance of Character Award goes to the PC. PC users on Hunch far outweigh Mac users 52% to 25% (where the remainder must have gotten sucked in to Dell’s use of Ubuntu). But, for the most part, who gives a shit, really? Especially when the answer to the question, “are Mac/PC/Linux debates important” is answered by over half the respondents (nearly 200 THOUSAND people) as, “Utterly pointless.”
I’m more likely to accept a Mac person’s double standards than they are to accept my tolerance – that’ll be an awkward encounter – but we’ll find some middle ground: The Daily Show, a Moscow Mule and some Hummus. And so, Have a nice day, and as one commenter said, go be unique, just like everyone else.
- Here’s Hunch.com
- Here’s the Infographic on their blog.
- Here’s what is historically considered the first infographic ever. It’s Napoleon’s invasion of Russia.
- DesignFreebies Best Of IG’s of 2010 Some neat gems in there.
