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The Smartest Browser and OS
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.)
Still using safari or IE? Means you're probably not too bright.
There are shills on slashdot. Apparently, I'm one of them.
Or even spell "intelligence"!
The cake is a pie
You are #5971 Smartest Human in the World
Oh well, it's at least lower than my slashdot-id.
I've received the perfect score. =)
http://www.iqleague.com/certificate/n9LjytSYn0y5JZqoAVDafg
I always get a giggle out of these "IQ" tests that require the use of javascript and cookies.
I guess if you visit their site with noscript, your IQ is so high it can't be measured!
they'll tell you that you're not very intelligent and that they can fix you.
Oh wait, that's Scientology.
How we know is more important than what we know.
Your score isn't showing up. Perhaps if you get more people to switch.
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
I'm sorry, but anyone who can't manage to put x-y axes on their plots isn't fit to analyze the intelligence of others.
What a load of rot. I didn't read any questions and just did some random clicking. 85.26% is WAY higher than my IQ.
... and happened to score 101. I don't know how I should take such information, but the following scares me:
16th in Raleigh
32nd in North Carolina
I mean, wtf. I can barely see straight right now. I guess that means, on average, my city/state is a bunch of drunkards?
Can we make Slashdot.org the "Smartest Website in the World?" (It's curretly number 2 behind ScienceBlogs.com.)
*That's* why it's #2.
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Apparently, Perl's PRNG is the 6883rd smartest human on earth with an IQ of 101.36. Why do people pay attention to tests like this again?
I didn't bother with the test but looking at the stats, it says the smartest person in the world has an IQ of 142, which in an actual IQ test is just below the minimum requirement for mensa.
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It was alex in the kitchen with a knife.
I dunno. We could distract people for a bit by bashing another of their spectacularly stupid entries, though, Googlebot/2.1 on Unknown! Stupid Googlebot. :(
The World Wide Web is dying. Soon, we shall have only the Internet.
Eunice is the only girl in a group of five teenagers (unless Alex is a girl too) - who cares how tall she is?
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
I've never heard of this site, but now that I have I'll never return to /.
Can I bum a sig?
It was probably meant to say "...who is taller than Eunice." Flip that one word, and the question becomes answerable.
Given that there were only 4 options to choose from, and none of them were Bob, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that "Bob" was "Eunice" before the surgery, which establishes a fixed ordering (Alex is third) and maintains the alternating taller than/shorter than flow of the question.
(Posting anon to avoid mod canceling.)
In the old system, unless you jump through hoops (I think logging out and even clearing cookies wasn't enough, you had to switch to a new IP) posting as anonymous would still get you messages indicating all your mods are undone (though you can still mod other threads in the conversation afterwards, go figure.) The new posting system doesn't provide any such feedback that I can see (beyond "you must wait a while before using this") so I really don't know if my mods have been undone or not.
We are going to have you taken away on the basis of disclosing...
Wait, wasn't he disclosing?
No, no, this post is in no way an acknowledgement that we might or might not have thought about pursuing a course of action against QuantumG for allegedly attempting to coerce us into disclosing what could or could not have been seen as information on our Secret Proceedings, in case they exist.
It said I live in Herndon, VA. I live in Pullman, WA. It's pretty far fom here. It also said I'm something like the 3300th smartest person in the world. Since I'm really drunk right now that's pretty sad.
You are so boring that when I see you my feet go to sleep.
That would have to be the worst attempt at an IQ test I've ever seen... A combination of general knowledge and some pattern recognition in only ten questions is so far from qualifying as an IQ test that it's not funny.
Disclaimer: The above comment was made while under the influence of too much coding and not enough sleep.
it marked me as "user of Firefox on WinXP" even though i'm using iceape on debian.
...or is no-one that dumb :-)
Perhaps they're judging the intelligence, by how many questions the subject displays before realising these questions are all a load of bollocks and leaving the site.
the first question i got was:
.... [SQL: INSERT INTO IQLeague.dbo.UserAndGroup (AuthSignature, Email ... VALUES (... so on so on
could not insert: [IQLeague.BusinessLayer.User
and i could not answer it, even if i KNEW its a database error.