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Are Mac Users Smarter than PC Users?

Posted by pudge on from the well-yes-duh dept.

arminw writes "Maybe not smarter, but according to MacNewsWorld they are better at expressing themselves than the average Slashdotter and certainly are better at handling the king's English than the average PC operator." Also, michael is better than CowboyNeal. Mathematical expressions of written style don't lie!

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  1. Re:Troll food: I'm hungry! by Otter · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Yeah, first off, I want to know what 2,800 lines he took. I would hope he didn't use a random method of comment gathering as anything under +3 is generally junk (and thus why it holds there).

    Your level of understanding of statistical methodology: 5th grade

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  2. Re:Flamebait by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Or checking spelling either...

  3. Re:It's economics really... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    bullshit what a load of shit, I know nobody who can afford a 25 thousand dollar car let along a G5 with 30 inch cinema. I think ur a mac user whose trying to prove no point at all and justify your spending big money on being no different to anyone else

  4. Re:Troll food: I'm hungry! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    your level of understanding in regards to proper grammar: 3rd grade. if you're going to try and make some stupid point against the parent at least sound somewhat intelligent.

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  5. Re:Troll food: I'm hungry! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    But at least I know where my shift key is.

  6. Re:Troll food: I'm hungry! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    your level of understanding in regards to proving a point: 1st grade. if you're going to try and make some stupid point against the parent at least figure out how you'll sound respectable so people will actually pay attention to your point.

  7. Re:It's economics really... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You know why they call it "community college"? Cuz everybody in the community can go... crackheads, drug dealers, prostitutes, anybody.

    "Goin' to school, gotta get my learn on..."

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  8. Re:Mac vs PC- intelligence of the user by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    It's spelled "sesquepedalian" you ignorant tart. And what the hell kind of phrase is "running the bank"?

  9. Re:Typical Mac user has changed over the years by fiannaFailMan · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    At one time, the typical Mac user bought his machine because he was scared of DOS and the rest of the PC world.
    No, he bought a Mac because they were better than PCs in every way except for price and software availability. He bought a system that didn't require an IT degree to operate, rather he bought a system that would just let him get on with more important work than maintaining a computer.
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  10. How blatheringly.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    How blatheringly noninculpative (that ought get vocab points) and typical of stupid mac users. (I'll probly get negative points because 'mac' isn't a real word, not because I'm dumb.)

  11. Smart mac user = oxymoron by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    If you are a mac user, you had to at least have been stupid enough to buy the $3000 word processor in the first place. And then you claim to be smarter, because the only things you can do are write papers or make pictures in photoshop. Ha!

  12. Re:Flamebait by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    he is a gayhomo

  13. Re:Flamebait by EvilAlien · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Hardly.

    Those that spend less to do more are smarter than those who spend more to have a pretty GUI that lets their brains stagnate.

    If there is any correlation between MacOS usage and some attempt at measuring intelligence, we would do a mass injustice to imply causation. It is likely that MacOS users, on average, would be more intelligent because Macs tend to be in education institutions (a context which 'intelligence' metrics will undoutably be biased towards) or used in other contexts in which intelligence is applied to things other than computer use.

    Remember, it is quite possible to be very smart in general while be an idiot with computers, and visa versa. Computer clue != general clue.

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  14. Re:Article text in case of slashdotting! by IAmATuringMachine! · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    He wanted to make sure you'd be able to understand it :)

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