Internet Explorer users have lower IQs: study

[Papa_Complex]

Originally Posted by Homeslice

Slow compared to what? I haven't noticed any speed decline vs. IE8.

Slow compared to IE8 and IE7. Noticeably and significantly slower. It also buggers up several of our web based applications and has to constantly be run in compatibility mode, if it's going to be left on the machine. The speed issue, though, is why I keep being asked to uninstall it.

[Particle Man]

Originally Posted by Captain Morgan

I work for the government. We still have IE 6 on our computers at work.

weren't they still using Windows 3.11 until a very short while ago as well?

[Adeptus_Minor]

Originally Posted by Homeslice

The higher the IQ, the more people automatically assume that popular stuff is crap (be it music, books, cars, or internet browsers). So they seek out non-mainstream stuff, and automatically assume it's better. Even when it isn't.

Is that higher IQ or hipster IQ?

[fasternyou929]

Originally Posted by Avatard

http://news.yahoo.com/internet-explo...140027121.html

Using Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) to browse the web? Your IQ score is likely to be lower than someone using Firefox, Chrome, Safari or Opera.

A new study published by online psychometric testing company AptiQuant Psychometric Consulting Co. has found that a user's choice of web browser is related to their cognitive ability.

"There was a clear indication...that the subjects using any version of Internet Explorer ranked significantly lower on an average than others," said Aptiquant. Out of all the IE versions, "subjects using IE 8 [fared] a little better."

People using Opera, Camino and IE with Chrome Frame scored slightly higher than their not-so-bright Internet Explorer-using friends, suggesting that people with a lower IQ "tend to resist a change/upgrade of their browsers."

"There was no significant difference in the IQ scores between individuals using Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Apple's Safari; however, it was on an average higher than IE users," said Apitiquant.

More than 100,000 people in USA, Canada, UK, Australia and New Zealand took the online Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (IV) test in the space of four weeks and their IQ scores were correlated with their browser choice for the study.

http://www.aptiquant.com/news/is-int...-exactly-that/

What a fantastically useless study. I wonder why they didn't also correlate IQ to the color of their shirt, zip code, choice in vehicle, republican versus democrat, whole milk vs. skim...

The most entertaining part of this article is that some pathetic people will latch onto it to make themselves feel better about who they are. The irony of "higher IQ" relying on junk science...

[OneSickPsycho]

Originally Posted by fasternyou929

What a fantastically useless study. I wonder why they didn't also correlate IQ to the color of their shirt, zip code, choice in vehicle, republican versus democrat, whole milk vs. skim...

The most entertaining part of this article is that some pathetic people will latch onto it to make themselves feel better about who they are. The irony of "higher IQ" relying on junk science...

It's funny how people who are supposedly smarter than everyone else consistently need to validate their intelligence in such ridiculous, illogical, and fundamentally stupid ways...

[pauldun170]

http://gawker.com/5827284/internet-e...ory-was-a-hoax

[OneSickPsycho]

Originally Posted by pauldun170

http://gawker.com/5827284/internet-e...ory-was-a-hoax

Go figure.

[Corey]

Thank god, the internet says I'm not dumb now. How would I live without it telling me what I am?

[fasternyou929]

Originally Posted by OneSickPsycho

Go figure.

I wonder how many people duped by it were in the "higher IQ" category.

[Avatard]

Internet Explorer IQ report appears to be a hoax