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Topic Started: Aug 2 2011, 12:30 PM (139 Views)
Yev
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I'll kick off this thread with this link from the BBC:

Internet Explorer users have lower IQ says study

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Ouch, good thing I use opera. Whenever I figure out how to get a better internet browser for the Zune I'll be all over it.
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The findings have been treated with scepticism by Professor David Spiegelhalter of Cambridge University's Statistical Laboratory: "They've got IE6 users with an IQ of around eighty. That's borderline deficient, marginally able to cope with the adult world.

"I believe these figures are implausibly low - and an insult to IE users."
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Note to self, read article carefully before commenting.
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Belschaft,Aug 3 2011
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The findings have been treated with scepticism by Professor David Spiegelhalter of Cambridge University's Statistical Laboratory: "They've got IE6 users with an IQ of around eighty. That's borderline deficient, marginally able to cope with the adult world.

"I believe these figures are implausibly low - and an insult to IE users."

Yes, 80 doesn't seem implausibly low. I thought the article was amusing enough to repost anyway though.

I dunno, maybe the IE users who filled out the quiz were disproportionately elderly, children, and non-English speakers who would be disadvantaged on an IQ test.
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Yev,Aug 3 2011
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Belschaft,Aug 3 2011
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The findings have been treated with scepticism by Professor David Spiegelhalter of Cambridge University's Statistical Laboratory: "They've got IE6 users with an IQ of around eighty. That's borderline deficient, marginally able to cope with the adult world.

"I believe these figures are implausibly low - and an insult to IE users."

Yes, 80 doesn't seem implausibly low. I thought the article was amusing enough to repost anyway though.

I dunno, maybe the IE users who filled out the quiz were disproportionately elderly, children, and non-English speakers who would be disadvantaged on an IQ test.

Probably because they couldn't read/understand "Get a different browser."
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Once a guy fell into a monocle making machine and made a spectacle of himself, while he was on fire.
"God is good, but never dance in a small boat." -Mikey's dad
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Update: It was a hilarious hoax. :lol:
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Yev,Aug 3 2011
05:25 PM

So that's why it looked different when I read it. :lol:
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