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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. "Curretly"? by Kickersny.com · · Score: 5, Funny

    Can we make Slashdot.org the "Smartest Website in the World?" (It's curretly number 2 behind ScienceBlogs.com.) Are they serious?
    1. Re:"Curretly"? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      And why does the poster think that a larger amount of Slashdot users taking the test will help bring up the score? This does not compute.

    2. Re:"Curretly"? by The+Ancients · · Score: 5, Funny

      Can we make Slashdot.org the "Smartest Website in the World?" (It's curretly number 2 behind ScienceBlogs.com.) Are they serious?

      Dedly

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    3. Re:"Curretly"? by palegray.net · · Score: 3, Funny

      You have to understand that traditional metrics of intelligence don't apply to troll populations; they rely on "cumulative intelligence" instead of individual or averaged values. The fact that the average troll's intelligence is in the single digits is offset by their sheer numbers; some have speculated that the rise of SkyNet may actually be precipitated by the combined intellectual contribution of 1.57 billion troll-moderated Slashdot posts.

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    4. Re:"Curretly"? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      A few minutes ago, /. was #8. Now it's #11. Way to go /.ers, you've proven how intelligent you really are.
      Edit: In the amount of time it took me to write this and hit preview, /. dropped to #15.

    5. Re:"Curretly"? by Awptimus+Prime · · Score: 5, Funny

      Oh it'll go down further once I am done randomly clicking answers, saying I am from /. then deleting my cookie and repeating a few more times.

    6. Re:"Curretly"? by arotenbe · · Score: 4, Funny

      Wait a minute... are you saying there's actually another person on /. who looks at the previews submitting them?

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    7. Re:"Curretly"? by rve · · Score: 4, Funny

      The advertisement section on this slashdot page says more about the average /. user than an online test:

      - Ads by google
      - Linux gurus wanted
      - Beautiful Russian girls for marriage
      - Looking for a junior IT job?

  2. Your IQ is 100.44 by Miffe · · Score: 5, Funny

    You are #5971 Smartest Human in the World

    Oh well, it's at least lower than my slashdot-id.

  3. Doesn't matter what you've scored... by Jorophose · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've received the perfect score. =)

    http://www.iqleague.com/certificate/n9LjytSYn0y5JZqoAVDafg

  4. Re:IQ Test? by schon · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!

  5. No matter what you score.. by QuantumG · · Score: 4, Funny

    they'll tell you that you're not very intelligent and that they can fix you.

    Oh wait, that's Scientology.

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  6. Blind leading the blind? by liegeofmelkor · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

  7. Pffffffffftttttt by Mattniche · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

  8. Random numbers smarter than median human? by geekgirlandrea · · Score: 5, Funny

    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?

  9. Re:Great. by FooAtWFU · · Score: 4, Funny

    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. :(

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  10. Re:Still using safari or IE? by MadnessASAP · · Score: 5, Funny

    Me too! I guess that makes us the entire opera market share.

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  11. The Test is Stupid by jbrader · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

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