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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. Great. by One+Childish+N00b · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.
  2. Re:IQ Test? by Coopjust · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yeah, some of the questions I received were about the Beatles and Russian History. Those seem like historical knowledge tests, not intelligence quotient...

  3. Re:IQ Test? by gujo-odori · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  4. Dropping Score by blavallee · · Score: 5, Informative

    /. has dropped to number 11

    Guess no one took into account the large sector of (insert field) managers that read slashdot.

  5. Re:IQ Test? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima (Little Boy) wasn't an H-bomb.

  6. Re:Still using safari or IE? by flink · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

  7. Re:Lower is better! by RpiMatty · · Score: 3, Informative

    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