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The Smartest Browser and OS

Posted by kdawson on from the correlation-is-not-causation dept.

The IQ League maintain a "60 Second IQ Test" online. Interestingly, they correlate the results of this test with a number of statistics available from their server logs. Along with the geographical distinctions like city and country, the referrer and OS/Browser user-agent strings are also mined, to determine the Smartest Browser and OS. Cutting to the chase, the very smartest is Firefox on Unknown (which internal evidence suggests is MacOS-Intel), and the dumbest, as of this writing, is IE on WinNT. Quick! Test out and move the bars on the pretty graph! Can we make Slashdot.org the "Smartest Website in the World?" (It's currently number 2 behind ScienceBlogs.com.)

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  1. Bible questions by daBass · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I would assume that if you get the bible questions wrong, you actually get a higher IQ score.

  2. Re:Lower is better! by cp.tar · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Ah. That explains things.

    I get a 119 or so, but that includes questions where I cannot answer at all. I keep clicking on everything, hoping something would get through.

    Either a buggy test or Firefox on Unknown (Mac, Intel BTW) is a buggy browser. Or I'm a buggy user.

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