Tell me your browser, and I tell you how smart you are!

amirm · Jul 29, 2011

Or At least these guys do! http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-20085679-71/just-how-stupid-are-ie-users/?tag=cnetRiver

"When scientists attempt to correlate numbers, it's best to open a nice Casa Nuestra Tinto Classico and pour yourself a large glass.
Only then can you really savor the conclusions that can so easily be reached when one lot of numbers goes on a blind date with another.
Take this fascinating new study from a Canadian psychometric consulting company called AptiQuant. Appearing to have no relationship with the cosmetics of Mary Quant, these people still seem able to create a very pretty visage, one that will have us all talking to the second bottle...."

Quick: switch browsers!

terryj · Jul 29, 2011

don't know how!!

amirm · Jul 29, 2011

IE6 user, eh?

Steve Williams · Jul 29, 2011

switch to Chrome Terry

RBFC · Jul 29, 2011

The chart doesn't go low enough.....

Lee

c1ferrari · Jul 30, 2011

Bad data

yields faulty analysis culminating in irrelevant conclusions.
I adhere and rely on clairvoyance, myself

Kal Rubinson · Jul 30, 2011

RBFC said:
The chart doesn't go low enough.....

Or high enough.

audioguy · Jul 30, 2011

Every time I see something like this, I'm reminded of the mathematical concept of averages, defined in very straight forward terms: "On the average, every person has one breast and one testicle"

cjfrbw · Jul 30, 2011

I wonder what the average IQ of people who believe polls is.

terryj · Jul 30, 2011

cjfrbw said:
I wonder what the average IQ of people who believe polls is.

dunno, but a poll would help us find out...I think...

cjfrbw · Jul 31, 2011

terryj said:
dunno, but a poll would help us find out...I think...

Yeah, how come I didn't think of that!

Orb · Jul 31, 2011

terryj said:
dunno, but a poll would help us find out...I think...

And we should make the poll accessible via browsers.

Vincent Kars · Jul 31, 2011

Small wonder Opera users have the highest IQ, it runs on smart phones.

Lee · Jul 31, 2011

I use both Safari and Firefox. Can I combine my scores?

Johnny Vinyl · Jul 31, 2011

Are you really surprised about this article from CNET? Anytime there is an opportunity to bash MS or any other non-Apple company they're in your face making news about it.

I use IE9 and love it...so call me stupid!

RUR · Aug 3, 2011

Internet Explorer IQ report appears to be a hoax

Staff photos and information on the Aptiquant website -- a fully developed portal that includes contact information, previous press releases and studies, and a supposed history of the company -- appear to have been lifted from the website of a French Web development firm, Central Test.

"Central Test noticed the fraudulent use of its identity by Aptiquant, a Canadian company and deny any direct or indirect link with the above mentioned company," the company said in a post on its site Wednesday

The post said Central Test is investigating and reserves rights to pursue legal action against whoever lifted the photos.

...the Aptiquant website appears to have been created on July 14 and that a physical address in Vancouver that the firm lists appears to be phony as well. The company's site claimed it was founded in 2006....
On Wednesday, no one was immediately returning messages to the e-mail addresses listed on the Aptiquant website.

amirm · Aug 3, 2011

I like this in the comments:

"I'm beginning to question my own IQ for getting sucked into reading these articles."

Phelonious Ponk · Aug 3, 2011

I tried Firefox for awhile, then switched back to Safari. I use IE at work, but I don't know what version it is. It seems clumsy and illogical to me, but that's probably just a matter of not being used to it. The new job has me spending a lot of time with Microsoft products. Most of them are ok. Power Point...maybe I need to take a class or something. It's fine, but I find myself asking "Really?" Is that all it's got after this many versions?" But it's just brilliant compared to Publisher. Publisher is horrible. This is a "layout" program? This is a short step above trying to lay out a document in Word.

Tim

NorthStar · Aug 8, 2011

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