What’s All This Then!

I laughed when I read this study by the Canadian Research firm, AptiQuant. They gave a free, online IQ test to over 100,000 people, and then compared the results to the browser used by the test participants. Ready for AptiQuant’s findings?

• “Internet Explorer 6″ users had an average IQ score just over 80,
• Firefox and Chrome users had average IQ scores around 110,
• users of Opera and Camino users had score overs 120.

Your mileage may vary, of course. And I am willing to bet that, if you are reading my blog while using Internet Explorer, I am confident that you are a highly intelligent exception to the results of this study. Aren’t you …

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! UPDATE – 3 August 2011 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Amazing what some people will do to try and persuade you into other courses of action. Take the story mentioned above. Sounds good but it’s falser than a politician’s promise.

A web-business owner became so irked at people using the troublesome IE6 to visit his site, that he began the myth of IQ-to-browser-type. At major news agencies, their crack team of fact-checking journalists jumped on the story, skipped some major flawed facts. Vital facts, such as “The test that was mentioned in the report, “Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (IV) test” is a copyrighted test and cannot be administered online.”

This, my fine friends, is how we get duped time and time again by family, friends, and our beloved elected officials. They all mean well … just not well enough.

Of course, the biggest idiot is me for posting this to begin with.

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