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AptiQuant Browser/IQ Study Was Likely a Hoax

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the or-maybe-it-just-fooled-the-dumb-people dept.

A steady stream of people have submitted notes this morning saying that the story we (and the entire internet, and even NPR's Marketplace) mentioned recently talking about browser platform correlating with IQ looks like a hoax. Of course, if you read the Slashdot discussion, you probably would have known this already, but now everyone knows. The company responsible for the survey, AptiQuant, looks to not be real.

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  1. I knew immediately by airconswitch · · Score: 5, Funny

    After all, I use Opera.

  2. Not real?!! by PPH · · Score: 3, Funny

    Say it ain't so Ms. Zuckerburg. They have a web page with a Facebook link. They've got to be real. Right?

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    Have gnu, will travel.
  3. A follow-up study showed... by Registered+Coward+v2 · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...Internet Explorer users, on average, fell for the hoax the most, with IE6 users most likely to believe it was real and IE8 users being somewhat less gullible. Firefox, Chrome and Safari users fared somewhat better as they tended to not believe it as much as the IE users. IE with Chrome Frame and Camino users almost never believed the hoax, while Opera users immediately new it not to be true.

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    I'm a consultant - I convert gibberish into cash-flow.
  4. Re:Appearances by Coolhand2120 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is great, but what they conceal is essential.

  5. Re:It speaks volumes that we all believed it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    I use IE. I'm one of the smartest IT people in my circles

    There's no-one else in that basement, is there?