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Study Compares IQ With Browser Choice

Posted by samzenpus on from the using-a-stupid-blocker dept.

rennerik writes "A recent study of 100,000 people taking IQ tests compared the scores with which browser the person uses on a regular basis. On average, Internet Explorer users fared the worst, with IE6 users at the bottom of the pile and IE8 users performing slightly better. Firefox, Chrome and Safari fell in the middle with little difference between them. IE with Chrome Frame and Camino landed on top, along with Opera, whose users scored the highest"

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  1. All of those studies are the same by Sun · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The smaller the sample group, the more intelligent the average in it, in all recent "technology vs. intelligence" studies. Can we just deduct that the less intelligent flow with the crowd, the more intelligent actually pick what's best for them, and call it quits?

    Shachar

    1. Re:All of those studies are the same by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Smarter by ego, not by definiton.

    2. Re:All of those studies are the same by Jurily · · Score: 5, Insightful

      > We're geeks: we're smarter than average (in terms of IQ at least) basically by definition.

      Bullshit. We've just invested significant time and effort into understanding computers. Does that make us smarter than people getting really good at other areas of their life?

    3. Re:All of those studies are the same by Spy+Handler · · Score: 5, Insightful

      no, but it does put us in a group which develops a good understanding of something. So while we might not necessarily be smarter than the medical group or the junk bond group, we're definitely smarter than the average joe that doesn't have a good understanding of anything.

    4. Re:All of those studies are the same by rajafarian · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Well, I like the fact that geeks tend to better at logical reasoning than average plebes. A real geek would never say something silly like "Keep your government off my Medicare!" or "The universe is too complex FOR ME to understand therefore God exists!"

  2. Just downloaded... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Just downloaded Opera. I feel smarter already!

    1. Re:Just downloaded... by will_die · · Score: 4, Insightful

      or you brought down the average for the Opera group.

  3. The perfect troll. by westlake · · Score: 4, Insightful
    This is a PR stunt by a company that wants to sell personality testing to your boss.

    Visitors arrived either through organic searches or through advertisements on other sites, and Aptiquant made a note of which browser each test taker was using.

    This is add-driven self-selected polling. Manipulative and fraudulent.

    The chats do not distinquish between the browser at home and the browser at work. That matters a lot when you looking at Internet Explorer.