Internet Explorer users 'have below-average IQ'

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/internet/8674678/Internet-Exp...

PC World reports that a "psychometric consulting" firm called AptiQuant gave free online IQ tests to 100,000 people, and then plotted the scores against the browser on which the tests were taken.

It found that Internet Explorer users scored lower than average, while Chrome, Firefox and Safari users were very slightly above average. Camino, Opera and Internet Explorer with Chrome Frame were scored "exceptionally" high.

"The study showed a substantial relationship between an individual's cognitive ability and their choice of web browser," AptiQuant concluded. "From the test results, it is a clear indication that individuals on the lower side of the IQ scale tend to resist a change/upgrade of their browsers." MORE>>>

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Comment by Burbia on August 4, 2011 at 11:08am

Internet Explorer IQ study was a hoax

August 3, 2011 |  2:43 pm
A study that suggested Internet Explorer users were not as smart as those using other Web browsers is apparently a fake, according to the person that initially distributed it.

In a statement on its website, Aptiquant said it "was set up in late July 2011 by comparison shopping website AtCheap.com in order to launch a fake ‘study’.... The main purpose behind this hoax was to create awareness about the incompatibilities of IE6, and not to insult or hurt anyone.”

The company, Aptiquant, doesn't exist, according to a separate statement on its website.

A man identifying himself as the owner of Atcheap.com said he was behind the hoax. "It was just a joke, and I didn’t really mean to insult anybody," he said.

On Wednesday, BBC reported that images of the company’s staff were copied from another website: “Thumbnail images of the firm's staff on the website also matched those on the site of French research company Central Test, although many of the names had been changed,” the BBC said.

The BBC said readers raised questions regarding the study, and the news organization had a security consultant inspect source material after questions arose. "It's obviously very easy to create a bogus site like this -- as all phishers know it's easy to rip off someone else's web pages and pictures," Graham Cluley, a senior security consultant at Sophos, told BBC.

The study was widely reported by numerous media outlets, including this one.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/08/internet-explore...

Comment by youhavetoforgiveme on August 3, 2011 at 4:48pm

This is funny....and I'm not surprised. I work in the help desk arena and I'd probably get fired for saying it but when I have to ask a customer what browser they are using, if they don't already know, EVERY part of my being wants to say: "You're using Internet Explorer." I can't remember ANYONE using a browser other than IE that didn't at least know what a browser was and a vague knowledge of how to use it (clearing cache and cookies, for example)

 

Proof is in the pudding....stop using IE....stop being an idiot.....

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