Browsers

[Bill Sconce]

Someone has to post this...

-Bill
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Sent from my virusproofed Linux PC


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    1.
    http://www.pcworld.com/printable/article/id,236944/printable.html

    If you use Internet Explorer, your IQ might be below average--at
    least, according to one study.

    AptiQuant, a "psychometric consulting" firm that provides hiring
    exams for businesses, gave online IQ tests to more than 100,000
    people. Visitors arrived either through organic searches or through
    advertisements on other sites, and Aptiquant made a note of which
    browser each test taker was using.

    On average, Internet Explorer users fared the worst, with IE6 users
    at the bottom of the pile and IE8 users performing slightly better.
    Firefox, Chrome and Safari fell in the middle with little difference
    between them. IE with Chrome Frame and Camino landed on top, along
    with Opera, whose users scored the highest (on average).

    "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."

    [The study itself, a PDF, with graphs and color:
      http://www.aptiquant.com/IQ-Browser-AptiQuant-2011.pdf
    ]

    (The two bars at the left in Figure 1 *could* be interpreted
    as indicating that using Internet Explorer costs users 4 IQ
    points/year...   just joking... :)
    
    
    It gets stranger:
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    2.
    http://www.aptiquant.com/news/aptiquant-threatened-with-a-lawsuit-by-loyal-internet-explorer-users/

    AptiQuant, the company that released the report titled ‘Intelligence
    Quotient (IQ) and Browser Usage’ about the relation between an
    individual’s IQ score and their choice of web browser yesterday,
    is being threatened with a lawsuit by a group of Internet Explorer
    users. Internet Explorer users were labelled as the ones having the
    lowest IQ as compared to other browsers mentioned in the report.

    Leonard Howard, the CEO of the company said that he has been receiving
    hate mail from IE users since yesterday. He said, “I just want to make
    it clear that the report released by my company did not suggest that
    if you use IE that means you have a low IQ, but what it really says is
    that if you have a low IQ then there are high chances that you use
    Internet Explorer.” He further went on to say that the company did not
    feel threatened at all by the lawsuit threats because they have all
    the scientific data and logs to back their claims. “A win in a court
    would only give a stamp of approval and more credibility to our
    report,” he quipped.