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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.)
Since when do IQ tests contain questions about the bible, dinosaurs, etc?
Not that I'm disappointed that I did so badly or anything...
How does knowing facts about the Beatles (2/10 questions) have anything to do with IQ?
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
/. has dropped to number 11
Guess no one took into account the large sector of (insert field) managers that read slashdot.
Whoever wrote this "IQ" test is apparently not smart enough to understand how an IQ test works.
You can debate whether a real IQ test measures anything other than the ability to do well on IQ tests, however, real IQ tests don't depend on real world knowledge. That's the whole point of them. By my measure, 8 of the 10 questions it gave me are not even remotely worthy of being on an IQ test. For instance, knowing the date of the first olympiad is pretty much the definition of a question requiring real world knowledge.
The cake is a pie
That is odd though, I have installed Firefox on many computers when I have done technical work, and most if not all still use IE as their primary browser usually filling it back up with spyware for me to remove again... About the only ways I know how to make people use Firefox is either A) switch Firefox to an IE icon, or B) delete all evidence of IE except for the .EXEs hidden in system folders. I highly, highly doubt that most Windows users using Safari are just the iTunes users, now, I would expect most of the downloads of Safari for Windows to have come from iTunes but downloads usually don't equal use of the browser.
Taxation is legalized theft, no more, no less.
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?
Me too! I guess that makes us the entire opera market share.
I may agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to face the consequences of saying it.
It's even worse than that. I got penalized for only answering ten questions. They suggested I answer twenty more to remove the penalty. IN 60 SECONDS!!!
The test gives you about two seconds per question. That's not even enough time for general knowledge (read: culturally dependant) questions which don't belong on an IQ test, let alone complex pattern matching. I'm sorry, but that's no kind of IQ test.
Apparently these guys don't know what an IQ test is. The first question I got was a "general knowledge" question, which doesn't require any type of intellectual inference. It's just a matter of whether or not you've absorbed the knowledge somehow.
SRSLY.
I got stuck on the first question.
It said "Who is Winnie the Pooh's depressive donkey friend?" and I spent too long looking for the "How the fuck does knowing something about British children's fiction later bastardised by Disney tell you anything about my intelligence?" option.
Sorry everyone, I should have known better than to try and answer a question with a question.
I don't therefore I'm not.
Assume you have a group of people of relatively moderate computer savviness. They all use IE, and you tell them all about Firefox. Some of them will say "Pssh... whatever" and conclude that IE is both adequate and familiar, making it easy to rationalize not considering a change. Others will note the benefits along with your shining recommendation and consider a switch.
If we conclude from this that the ones who blew it off think less critically (a debatable, but reasonable assumption), we will indeed see more critical thinking people using IE.
It isn't much of a leap then to say that Firefox users are in some way "smarter" than IE users.
If you can't say that, you can at least say that they're more likely to give a hoot about the test and try harder than the others.
My preferred name is frazz, but someone keeps taking it. If you see him, tell him I said hi.