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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. 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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