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Internet Explorer Users Have Low Risk Intelligence
First time accepted submitter benne2011 writes "A hoax report earlier this year claimed that people who used Internet Explorer had a lower IQ than those using other browsers. Inspired by this bit of fun, Projection Point decided to carry out a real study comparing the risk intelligence (RQ) of people using different browsers. We found that Internet Explorer users performed worse than everyone else; they had lower RQ scores and were grossly overconfident."
From Wikipedia: The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which unskilled people make poor decisions and reach erroneous conclusions, but their incompetence denies them the metacognitive ability to recognize their mistakes. The unskilled therefore suffer from illusory superiority, rating their ability as above average, much higher than it actually is, while the highly skilled underrate their own abilities, suffering from illusory inferiority. Dunning-Kruger Effect Study was done in 99, so they are only 12 years late on this one.
All first world countries have required ultra low sulfur gasoline about as long as they've required emissions controls, because sulfur will poison a catalytic converter. The trucking industry fought it for several decades, but as of 2010 even diesel fuel is required to be ultra low sulfur in the US.
I suppose you could be talking about some kind of African country where high sulfur fuel is still allowed.
You're doing it wrong. If you mock people based on their consumption choices, you have to state your own choice so we can mock you in return.
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What?
The study size was 350 participants.
If you break down the percentages, they are variations of two or three people in each sample.
This is so far from statistically significant, it's laughable.
How your drivel got modded insightful I'll never know. Google "Risk Intelligence" brings up 184000 hits. The second result is this one which references its use and definition.
Well, I've seen worse. It does contain some questionable questions ("There are 7 notes in an octave" is supposedly false, "Norway is the land of the midnight sun" is supposedly true even though the explanation then says that Norway is just one of several countries that bear the title, "Gout is known as the Royal Disease" is supposedly false, note the inconsistency between the Norway and Gout questions) but I e-mailed them and they immediately changed at least one of the questions. Very friendly people, and they confirm the test is still being worked on. They even thanked me for my input with a voucher for the expert test.
As long as they only include uncontestable questions, I think this idea is actually pretty good and I would expect the results to be a lot more accurate than most other personality tests (which are usually complete rubbish).