EPT"Internet Explorer used mostly by the dumb people" - Page 15
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TheToaster
United States280 Posts
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Tektos
Australia1321 Posts
On August 03 2011 14:36 TheToaster wrote: Correlation does not justify causation. A simple statistical axiom. Just because IQ and browser choice has a correlation, that doesn't justify whether or not there is a cause and effect relationship occurring. Read the thread wtf... it has been said 500 times that correlation =/= causation. Nobody is claiming causation. | ||
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ICarrotU
United States254 Posts
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Belisarius
Australia6233 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + ![[image loading]](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v624/AlphaAquila/browseriq2.png) There's still people with IQs of 150+ using IE 8 (and 7), so there goes the whole "the study says only stupid people use IE" thing that seems to be being waved around. It is interesting, though, that IE 6 usage drops to zero at high percentiles, and both opera and IE. w/ chrome are completely nonexistent at low percentiles. It also says a little about the big ones like firefox and chrome, that kind of sit in no-man's land on the other chart. More than 40% of the top percentile share is firefox. It's also surprisingly convincing that there's clear upward and downward trends. On a personal note, safari dipping hard at high percentiles also makes me smile. tl;dr: It's a pretty silly study, done as a marketing stunt, but no matter how un-scientifically they executed it, they still got data from 100k people, and that data turns out to be kind of interesting. The OP also shows the less useful graph, imo. | ||
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Cr4zyH0r5e
Peru1308 Posts
BTW. The Title is highly inflamatory and uncalled for. This looks like anti-IE propaganda: OH Look! New study says on average IE users' cognitive ability is lower. --tranaslates into--> "Only dumb people use IE" lol. | ||
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Yew
United States940 Posts
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Lokian
United States699 Posts
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Simplistik
2173 Posts
And I'm not even using internet explorer... | ||
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Xevious
United States2086 Posts
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Svetz
Australia311 Posts
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14370878 | ||
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domovoi
United States1478 Posts
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DrBoo
Canada1177 Posts
Damn I just came to link that article but you've already beat me to it. I bet you're not using IE...haha... no it was just a hoax  | ||
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xarthaz
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VIB
Brazil3567 Posts
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Hesmyrr
Canada5776 Posts
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bunnymuncher
Canada112 Posts
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PopeTimusPrime
United States36 Posts
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14370878?correction=bananas&whoactuallyreadsthequerystringcomeon | ||
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semantics
10040 Posts
On August 04 2011 04:04 VIB wrote: Given microsoft has been caught with it's pants down lying about IE's performance and it's competitors dozens of times in the last few years. How can you be sure that this hoax revelation isn't yet another PR stunt? They dont lie they mislead it's common practice to mis lead people with benchmarks and saying like 4times fast or 10 times faster to something but only in a very specialized area, teach products do that all the time, it's almost 2nd nature to amd and nvidia. http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/web/08/03/explorer.report.faked/index.html Anyways any online IQ test is a loaded gun to showing that it's not valid, the only valid approach would be to take random people from various locations give them an IQ test then ask them a series of question about what they use, putting what browser do they normally use as part of that pool of questions. Ofc most times all you can pull in is college sophomores so kind of ruins the data. | ||
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redFF
United States3910 Posts
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