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Mindset Media Finds Mac Users More "Open Minded"

by , 1:20 PM EST, January 21st, 2008

Mindset Media surveyed 7,500 people and found that people who are highly open minded are 60 percent more likely than people in the general population to have purchased a Mac.

Mindset Media, which operates an online ad network that enables brand advertisers to reach millions of people with the personality traits that fit their brands, released a Mindset Profile of Mac users last week. Mindset Media uses a proprietary psychographic standard.

The study found that, "These purchasers are also more liberal, less modest, and more assured of their own superiority than the population at large."

"In a competitive market, like the one for personal computers, many brands compete for the same demographic, and what separates the winners from the losers is often the ability to identify and reach the right psychographic," said Sarah Welch, COO and co-founder of Mindset Media.

TMO notes that the study is not a huge surprise. It has always required people with healthy self-confidence to break away from the pack and embrace Apple products. What's interesting, however, is that more and more research companies are emerging to analyze and exploit these personality traits for the market as a whole, basically leveraging off what Apple has known how to do all along.


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Close Name:geoduck Posts: 1726 Joined: 30 Dec 2003
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Interesting.
There are exceptions though.
Rush Limbaugh and I believe Shrub are both Mac users.

I am surprised by the Less Modest aspect.

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Close Name:gslusher Posts: 2048 Joined: 13 Nov 2002
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Lol, it's wonderful how a Mac user can turn "arrogant" into "healthy self-confidence". In my experience, the majority of mac users are smug, self-assured jerks, but wrongly so. While busy pointing out the flaws in others, they rarely look at their own flaws. That's not "healthy self-confidence" that's conceit and improper pride.

I say this as someone who owns two macs. I refuse myself to call myself a "Mac user" so as to dissociate myself from the negative image "Mac users" have cultured for themselves (and are actually proud of!).


It seems to me that the above may fit the definition of "arrogant" and "smug," as well as "jerk."

It's dismaying how blind someone can be about his/her own flaws when busily pointing out the supposed flaws of others.

FWIW, this also appears to be an example of the logical fallacy sometimes called "hasty generalization" and, possibly, confirmation bias. (We tend to recall better and/or give more weight to observations that support our opinions than those that do not.)

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