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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.)
Is there any way this is not going to turn into a flamewar and/or an excuse to bash IE?
Come on, guys, we know it sucks. Let's have some news already.
Dealing with lawyers would be a lot less tedious if they all looked like Casey Novak.
Yeah, some of the questions I received were about the Beatles and Russian History. Those seem like historical knowledge tests, not intelligence quotient...
Mine had a questions about who is the creator according to Hinduism, and for what was Al Capone eventually imprisoned? While I happen to know the answers to those things, it has absolutely nothing to do with my IQ, nor would not knowing them. At this point, I'm only certain of one thing: my IQ is higher than that of anyone who thinks that's an IQ test.
/. has dropped to number 11
Guess no one took into account the large sector of (insert field) managers that read slashdot.
From Wikipedia on the inventor of IQ tests: "His principal goal was to identify students who needed special help in coping with the school curriculum."
Since school curriculums tend to involve things such as Literature, History, and Science it makes complete sense that knowing a lot about earth history and the the most popular book in the world would increase your IQ.
The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima (Little Boy) wasn't an H-bomb.
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Always read the fine print, assuming the bad grammar didn't tip you off first...
This is a joke of a test. It has some of the basic concepts down - visualization, pattern matching, logic puzzles - but the layout and the other sort of questions is not apt. I was asked about the Chunnel - sure I knew it, but local geography should not be applicable.
If anyone wants a real IQ test, take some of the mensa fun tests. That will show what a real test is like.
CMD+Option + on the mac gives that to you on the system level and virtual resolutions does the same under X windows. I guess it's useful under MS Windows though. I've found that Firefox will usually respond to Ctrl++ if you hit it enough times though, so I've never really found myself missing zoom on WinNT.
Nor was the one dropped on Nagasaki (Fat Man). In fact, an H-bomb has never been used in war. (For the pedantic, "used" doesn't mean proliferation during the cold war. It means intentionally killing people.)
Let us not become the evil that we deplore.
I.Q. has a very precise meaning and is not the same as the vernacular term "intelligence". It's instructive to note that neither the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale - III nor the Stanford-Binet IQ test (the one used by Mensa) use general knowledge questions in their test, as I.Q. is supposed to be a test of mental acuity, not a test of "smartness". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wechsler_Adult_Intelligence_Scale http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford-Binet
You don't have 60 seconds total.
If you answer in less than 5 seconds, you get 1 point.
If you answer in more than 45 seconds, you get 0.5 points.
If you answer somewhere in between, you get somewhere in between 0.5 and 1 point.
If your score is equal to the median, your IQ is 100.
For each standard deviation away from the median, your IQ changes by 15 pts.
From http://www.iqleague.com/iq-scores
1. Opera on UNIX 103.40
2. Firefox on MacPPC 103.35
3. AppleMAC-Safari on MacPPC 103.27
4. Mozilla on UNIX 103.13
5. Mozilla on MacPPC 103.05
6. AppleMAC-Safari on Unknown 102.77
7. Firefox on UNIX 102.75
8. Firefox on Unknown 102.53
9. Mozilla on Unknown 102.21
10. Firefox on Win2000 101.93
11. Firefox on Win98 101.48
12. Opera on MacPPC 101.26
13. Firefox on WinXP 101.14
14. Mozilla on WinXP 101.09
15. Firefox on WinNT 100.99
16. Opera on WinXP 100.17
17. Opera on Win2000 99.97
18. Opera on WinNT 98.99
19. IE on WinNT 98.09
20. Mozilla on Win2000 98.09
After the first 10 questions, my IQ was 20 points lower than my score from other IQ tests. A half hour later I answered another 10 questions, and my IQ dropped by 10 points.
Back in the day atleast firefox zoom changed the page layout and didn't worked for embedded content. Operas webpages still looked like the original, only bigger, same zoom everywhere.
Note that, as should be, the test only measures a specific kind of intelligence. No language or numerical stuff.
True confidence comes not from realising you are as good as your peers, but that your peers are as bad as you are.