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Internet Explorer Users and their IQ

Will

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Interesting article on the BBC news website here about IE and the IQ of its users.

"The study gave web surfers an IQ test, then plotted their scores against the browser they used.

IE surfers were found to have an average IQ lower than people using Chrome, Firefox and Safari. Users of Camino and Opera rated highest.
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So what browser are you all using?
 
Firefox. If there's a problem with that, then I'll use IE. But only if Firefox is being difficult ;).
 
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Internet Explorer IQ report appears to be a hoax
A report claiming Internet Explorer users scored lower on IQ tests than users of other Web browsers appears to have been an elaborate hoax.

The report, supposedly based on a survey of 100,000 Internet users, was released last week by what appeared to be a Vancouver-based, Web-consulting firm called Aptiquant.

Major news outlets -- including CNN, the BBC, NPR, CNET, Forbes and London's Daily Mail and Telegraph -- reported the story last week, as did multiple technology blogs.

But the BBC reported Wednesday that readers raised questions about the authenticity of the study.

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.

CNN.com's story pointed out that the report was not scientific, that the results posted online did not provide specific score numbers and that the whole survey "smacks of a little good, old-fashioned Microsoft hate."

"I think most people just assumed that the research's findings were dubious or unscientific, but it turned out the website was a sham too," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant with Web security firm Sophos.

Cluley said 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.

"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 webpages and pictures," Cluley said in an e-mail to CNN.

He said he checked out the PDF file of the report and it does not contain viruses or other malware.

On Wednesday, no one was immediately returning messages to the e-mail addresses listed on the Aptiquant website.

Cluley speculated the hoax could have been pulled off as "performance art," by "someone who has a grudge against IE" or "a mischief maker who gets a laugh out of all of this."








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What hoax?!
A similar discussion was had here some years back, leading to the same general conclusions: IE very specifically standing lowest in esteem and its users beleaguered. Nuthin new. :flowers:
 
It's a conspiracy, I tell ye!



Anyhoo, I stopped using it because I kept getting error codes, I need / want a browser that's easy to use which does what I want without error messages. :)
 
An amusing one certainly. It was amazing how many of the world's media picked up on it - and granted retracted it - so quickly.

IE definitely is a pain browser. In the UK the govt were stubbornly refusing to change their systems with IE6 (a lot of them) despite the large security glitches, and not to mention old-style web development cycles needed to support it.
 
I love my Firefox. Great ad blocker, lots of options. IE is horrible since they "upgraded" from IE7. Now that I upgraded my yahoo, I don't have to use IE any more.
 
IE7 has caused me so many issues from a developer/site maintenance point of view. It has so many quirks and glitches to take into account. I almost prefer IE6 to IE7. But both make me very sad.
 
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Of course, this isn't because of IE, it is because of a stupid person.

Altavista? They're still around? o.0
 
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