"Internet Explorer used mostly by the dumb people" - Page 11

On July 31 2011 09:44 WeddingEpisode wrote:
L o L

How's someone supposed to respond to this?

"I see your point about me being dumb. Very interesting."

On July 31 2011 10:09 JayDee_ wrote:
What a lot of you don't seem to factor is this is coming from an independent company, who had a vested interest in the outcome of the test.Validity flags should be ringing through your Opera using mega-brains.

Why would a "Psychometric Consulting" company, who operate to make money, conduct a study such as this? Exposure is the answer. Clearly their motives do not involve academia. What happens if their study yields fairly similar results for most browsers? Well then they just wasted their time,money, and resources. What kind of exposure would they get from such a result? "Um yea that's great... you do what again?"

Simply put, you can not entrust such a subjective study to a company who has something to prove. To those pleasantly surprised to find out about the rock solid evidence indicating their above average intelligences, please enlighten us as to the special qualities of Opera that would attract a person of higher intellect over Chrome or Firefox.

On July 31 2011 10:26 tobi9999 wrote:
I don't believe this. Average IQ of people who use IE6 is 80???? I mean sure people can be dumb, but they are not that dumb.

IE6 is horribly outdated and it should hassle you to upgrade to IE9 everytime you open it anyways though.

On July 31 2011 10:29 SnowFantasy wrote:
This cant be right, I use Internet Explorer and my IQ is at least like 230.

On July 31 2011 13:26 GGitsJack wrote:
Some people don't understand statistics, just because the average IE user is of 80 IQ, doesn't mean everyone who uses it is 80 IQ, not even stats to be honest, just common knowledge :D

Chrome user here.

On July 31 2011 00:58 k1mjee wrote:


I still use the Windows Classic theme on my "totally blinged out" gaming rig. Although the newer themes provide a more pleasant experience visually, I do this because I want higher FPS in-game for CoD4 and other games that I play competitively, despite the theme change only causing said frames per second to fluctuate between 3-5.

By your logic, I am "dumb as shit".

On July 31 2011 13:38 StrangrDangr wrote:


Some people don't understand statistics, just because a company makes a sensationalist claim doesn't mean that it is correct, it takes looking at the dubious methods for procuring the data, what the company had to gain by making this claim, and the fact that so much of the information is not reported by the study to see that it can't be taken at face value, not even statistics to be honest, just common knowledge :D

On July 31 2011 15:16 Nesserev wrote:
Well, this is obviously another one of those fake 'scientific' reports'.

It's a decent fake, but here are a few obvious reasons why you can just wipe your feet on this piece of dirt :
- The article itself is written in a very biased way, roughly 50% of the article being about why Internet Explorer is 'a piece of sh!t'-browser and how it's a pain for developers for so many years.
- The article was published on the website of the company itself, combined with the biased opinion towards IE in the article, it doesn't really help their credibility.
- No names are attached to it, something rather suspicious.
- No actual numbers are given, just graphs.
- Psychometrics ? That doesn't even exist. Just think about it... how are you going to measure something that can't be measured ?
- IQ tests are the biggest bs ever, they're way too shallow and 1-dimensional to conclude wether or not someone is dumb/smart.
- They fail to tell what the correlation between browser and IQ is, only their biased hypothesises based on nothing.
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Now I've come to the conclusion that I can think of dosens of reasons why nobody should believe this and that this is just stupid.