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Title: What Browser/OS the Smartest People Use!
Post by: gunug on May 23, 2008, 09:46:52 PM
I hesitate to bring up just what OS and Browser I'm using right now but there is a website that ranks these things in combinations along with some sort of statistic (from where?) about the IQ of those who use that combo:

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Members of Smartest Browser and OS
Position    Name    IQ Score
1.    Mozilla on Unknown    112.77
2.    Mozilla on UNIX    110.74
3.    Firefox on UNIX    110.58
4.    Mozilla on MacPPC    110.49
5.    Firefox on MacPPC    109.73
6.    Firefox on Unknown    108.00
7.    AppleMAC-Safari on Unknown    107.97
8.    Firefox on Win2000    107.16
9.    AppleMAC-Safari on MacPPC    106.56
10.    Firefox on WinXP    103.91
11.    Firefox on WinNT    103.30
12.    AppleMAC-Safari on WinXP    102.55
13.    Opera on WinNT    101.87
14.    Opera on WinXP    99.69
15.    IE on WinNT    98.53
16.    IE on WinXP    97.58
17.    IE on Win98    96.95
18.    IE on Win2000    95.80
19.    Mozilla on WinXP    93.01
20.    Opera on Unknown    92.54

http://www.iqleague.com/group/smartest-browser-and-os

I see they don't talk about the people who are surfing using some old browser under MS-DOS or on a C-64!
Title: What Browser/OS the Smartest People Use!
Post by: krissel on May 24, 2008, 12:08:50 AM
Well, if you follow through you will see that they base it on the answers given by people who take their IQ test. Problem is, they don't give the rationale for  the results until you finish. I didn't realize they were basing the scores on the time it took to answer each question. I would have waited to take it when I wasn't so tired. And they have some sort of penalty for not taking quizzes within so many days.

I also would have a bit of a problem with a site that says:

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Congradulations


and

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The penalty will go away after answering more then 30 questions.


(than)

rolleyes.gif
Title: What Browser/OS the Smartest People Use!
Post by: Xairbusdriver on May 24, 2008, 03:48:54 PM
It taykes a sharpe aye too cee thoz detales! Congradulayshuns! Agin! salute.gif

But don't be so intolerant, it probably wasn't there fault. rofl.gif
Title: What Browser/OS the Smartest People Use!
Post by: gunug on May 25, 2008, 07:57:02 AM
"Congradulations" are in order for people who are smart but lack a good spelling checker on their HTML editor!  I have some tolerance for that particular misspelling because it's one I've made often!
Title: What Browser/OS the Smartest People Use!
Post by: Xairbusdriver on May 25, 2008, 03:33:58 PM
As my wife will gleefully tell you, her husband is the absolute wurst spelar en the wurld! blush-anim-cl.gif But there are system-wide spell checkers that are available. The easiest and most accurate and least expensive (as in FREE) one I've found is <Excalibur>. I have it running any time my Mac is on. Unfortunately, I have to occasionally use a pen or pencil on actual paper and I can't get it to work inside my brain! Obviously I need a RAM upgrade! smile.gif
Title: What Browser/OS the Smartest People Use!
Post by: Gregg on May 25, 2008, 04:21:24 PM
QUOTE(krissel @ May 24 2008, 12:08 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
... they were basing the scores on the time it took to answer each question.


So, it only proves that Macs are faster than everything else. wink.gif