Research: IT People 'Twice As Likely' To Wear Heavy Metal T-Shirts As Other People

According to new research, IT (Information Technology) staff are twice as likely to wear a heavy metal t-shirt as their non-IT counterparts. The study of 1000 office workers, by Intermedia.NET, the leading Microsoft Exchange host, also found IT types 34% more likely to sport a ponytail. Other key findings:

Research provides an interesting insight into the life of IT people:

* Black jeans are 63% more popular among IT types than other workers
* IT workers are 32% less likely to wear clean clothes every day of the week than business managers
* Business and IT people are equally likely to wear a cellphone belt clip

The survey also found that despite unhelpful stereotyping such as Apple's "Mac and PC" commercials, IT and business people are equally likely — at 5% each — to wear dated 1990s spectacles.

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