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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. Ssssh! by Zocalo · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Don't spoil it now! I'm fully expecting a significant drop in IE6 users in the next round of the various stats put out each month because of this. Anything that gets users off that nightmare and onto something newer, even just a more recent version of IE, is a good thing in my book!

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    UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!