"Dogs have more friends than cats", Facebook analyzed figures of 160,000 people in dogs and cats figures

August 8th is animal welfare organization · International Animal Welfare Fund "World Cat Day (Cat Day)"It is stipulated. What kind of differences can be seen in cats and dogs on the Internet, after Facebook is such a cat's day? We analyzed and announced the data that it was.

Cat People, Dog People - Research at Facebook
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Facebook analyzed 160 thousand people who are living in the USA and publish pictures of dogs and cats on Facebook. In order to judge whether it is a dog or a cat in the photograph, Facebook uses object recognition technology used for support of blind people.

Analysis of the data found out the following facts.

◆ 1: Dog faction has more friends


According to the survey, the average number of friends in the dogs was 26 compared to the cats. Dogs are creatures living by making flocks, but online dog factions tend to have a connection with others, like dogs' behavior. Meanwhile, cats are more invited to the event than dogs.

Also, of course, it turned out that the dog faction is easy to become a dog faction, the cat faction tends to be friends with the cat faction. Especially the number of times the cats make cats' friends is 2.2 times the number of times the cats become friends with the whole people. However, the number of times that cats are friends with dogs is also 1.8 times the usual, and as a whole, cats tend to be friendly with the whole animal lover. In this respect, the number of dog fellows was 1.8 times for the former and 1.6 times for the latter.

◆ 2: Cat faction has many single


As a result of analyzing based on Profile's "Relationship status" data, 30% of the single cats are in the whole, 24% of the single dogs are female, the cats are more often single than the dogs Turn out. However, contrary to the stereotype image "A lonely old woman keeps a cat", many young people and men were seen in the cat faction single.

◆ 3: Types of entertainment
From the number of times you pushed "Like" on Facebook, cats tend to prefer indian entertainment such as books, television and movies. Also, it seems that the tendency to like fantasy things, science fiction, animation etc is higher than dog faction.

Below are graphs of trends of books preferred by dogs and cats. A blue graph shows works that are favored by cats, and a green graph shows works that are favored by dogs. For books preferred by cats, "Vampire Dracula"Alice in Wonderland"Hobbit"Stephen Kingthe work""Harry potter"On the other hand, books preferred by dogs are"Eat, pray, love you"Five Purpose of Guiding Life - Chap 40 to live like yourself"Dear youIn addition to "Marley The thing that the world's most stupid dog taught"The popularity is outstanding popularity. Works that have no biases of cats and dogs are "hunger game"Great Gatsby"Such.


In the case of television programs, cats prefer it to "NARUTO - Naruto"Pokemon"Star Trek"The dog faction likes the medical drama"Gray's Anatomy Anatomy of Love"Duck · Dynasty" reality program of rich family and "The Hills" closely related to the private life of young people. Neutral television programs include "LOST"Or"Low & OrderDrama such as "was raised.


In the case of a movie it is like this. The cats prefer to prefer "Terminator"alien"Child playOn the other hand, it is more preferred for dogs than "Hangover!"A story that you read"Fifty · Shades of Gray"Such. For works that have no biases of cats and dogs, "Frozen"Transformers"Seventeen Again"there is ........., ........., etc.


◆ 4: Places to live


As mentioned above, there are differences in how the cats and the dogs connect with friends, but this also involves geographical issues. Dog faction tends to concentrate on country areas where dogs can afford to spend much of their life, while cats favored people living in urban areas. In the figure below, areas with red and cats are shown, areas with blue and dogs are shown, in particular red is concentrated in urban areas. Because it is difficult to connect physically, it may be that we tend to get in touch online.


◆ 5: Difference in emotional expression
Facebook has a function to post the mood at that time with an icon, but what kind of mood tend to express in dogs and cats? When it was examined, it turned out that the cat faction tends to be expressed easily as "tired". However, at the same time it is easier to express emotions such as "happiness" "likes", it is concluded that the "school faction expresses various emotions" as a whole, the dog faction tends to express "excitement and pride".