Dog multitude , like their positron emission tomography , seem to be passably gregarious . They have more Facebook friend , on average , than cat people , asGoodreports . At least according to Facebook ’s a la mode psychoanalysis of user who post exposure of deary .
Four Facebook researchers choose adeep diveinto the anonymized data of 160,000 user in the United States , using object - identification software to help analyze the deviation between dog people ( those who share photos of dogs ) and cat multitude ( those who share photos of cats ) . As it happens , wienerwurst people had an average of 26 more Facebook friends than cat people . But it ’s possible these superfluous Facebook friend are remote acquaintances meet at the dog-iron park , because computed tomography people , despite their lower supporter count , get ask over to more issue .
And there are some differences in the entertainment firedog and big cat people savour . Dog people likeDuck Dynasty ; cat the great unwashed are disproportionately into the Nipponese anime showNaruto . But they can all agree on the prayer ofSeinfeld , Law and Order : Special Victims Unit , andThe Vampire Diaries .
Unsurprisingly , dog masses are disproportionately interested in the Facebook pages of detent movie likeMarley and Me . hombre hoi polloi tend to like more sci - fi movies equate to dog people , who gravitate toward love news report . Frozen , of course , defies all demographic barrier .
dog-iron people really seem to like Nicholas Sparks , whose stories make it onto the list of both favorite book and favorite flick for dog lovers . computerized axial tomography the great unwashed , on the other hand , tend toward comics and illusion - type stories , preferringWatchmen , Harry Potter , andWorld War Zat disproportionate rate .
of course , there are some caution that come with any data collected on Facebook . The information people post there is n’t necessarily 100 percentage accurate . They might say they ’re single , but only because they have n’t update their kinship position in yr because they ’re no longer in high school , and it ’s not 2006 . Perhaps they moot themselves tag masses at heart , but hold out in a small apartment that only allows African tea . perhaps they do n’t share pictures of their pets on Facebook ( impossible to imagine , I know , but then again , humanity is full of surprises ) .
Still , this is an unco great data set , which is pretty exciting in terms of getting a big - picture expression at citizenry ’s preference and habits .
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