Apple employees are certainly Geniuses, but their colleagues across the technology company sphere don’t find them the most attractive, according to a survey compiled by app Hinge and shared by the Wall Street Journal. Hinge, which works similar to app Tinder but with a professional twist, allows users to swipe left or right on another person. You swipe right if you want to connect, and you swipe left if you don’t want to connect.
The survey indicates that people swiped right on Amazon employees 14.2% more than the average rate, Microsoft employees 8.2% above the average rate, Google employees 7.2% above the average rate, Facebook employees 2.3% above the average rate, and Apple employees 0.2% below the average rate. On the other hand, Apple employees swiped right 0.5% more of the time than the average user:
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What did I just read?
I have no idea.
They are trying to beat Lifehacker on the most useless, incomprehensible article ever typed. And they might have a winner here.
Reminds me of that Twilight Zone episode when the guy wakes up and everyone speaks strange English
Now what is what right or left ?
Random… strangely rude.
Props to apple for hiring more uggos.
Most retarded article ever.
I find it hard to believe anyone wasted time conducting this study, much less reporting on it. I regret I wasted my time reading about it. I’d call it a “meaningless measurement” but I think that’d be giving it more credit than it’s worth. Which of these innovative businesses has the most attractive people? Good grief. Writing this comment took longer than anyone should have thought about this question.
I vote “swiped right on the least” the most awkward phrase of 2014.
Would be interesting to know if Apple’s enormous retail staff skewed the data…
Slow news day Mark?
How do they know that the sole criterion for “wanting to connect” is that the person is attractive. Might there be any other reason whatsoever?
As well, the second graph concerning the “pickiest” makes even less sense than the rest of the article. The byline claims that “Facebook workers swiped left 14.8% more often than the average user.” Below that, I see a bar by ‘1. Facebook’ that says 7.5 (above the presumed average of 0). At the bottom of the graph I see a bar by ‘5. Amazon’ that says -14.8. How does the chart in any way bear out what the byline says?