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Hybris
United States185 Posts
On July 31 2011 01:43 DeSam wrote: i dont even have to read this, puzzle uses IE and hes god so that alone throws away that whole article (btw: many koreans do) Read what countries the study took place in. I'm pretty sure this has always been noted >.>. | ||
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Deadlyfish
Denmark1980 Posts
I think it's strange how if you used opera in 2006 you had an IQ of 100, now you have one of 130, which is very high compared to average. So either people using Opera got smarter, or all the "stupid" people switched away from Opera, i wonder which it is... Also, every person i know above the age of 40 uses IE. I guess that makes them stupid ^^ | ||
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Jswizzy
United States791 Posts
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DisneylandSC
Netherlands435 Posts
On July 31 2011 01:39 Biff The Understudy wrote: The whole IQ thing really proves one thing about intelligence: the people who invented such a dumb concept are not very intelligent themselves. Measuring intelligence is dumb, defining intelligence the way IQ does is dumb, everything about IQ is dumb. Nobody can even give a clear and definite answer about what is the real content of the concept of intelligence. How on earth would you measure it? It just defies all logic. Now my girlfriend uses IE because she doesn't like spending time on the computer (and doesn't like computers in general). Therefore she uses the default browser of her laptop. How on earth can that be correlative with a lack of intelligence? Thats the funny thing about statistics. You never know which of the 2 causes the other. Now I would like to argue that someones intelligence influences the choice of browser. For example Opera is very popular among programmers etc. In order to be able to code you need a certain treshhold of intelligence. Internet explorer on the other hand is used by pretty much everyone. Obviously when you compare these two groups the later will have a lower average IQ. As for your girlfriend and also what you said after. On July 31 2011 01:39 Biff The Understudy wrote: Either you are stupid either the "scientists" who wrote this article are stupid. I wouldn't worry too much if I were you  These are statistics over a large group of people. For all we know there are huge deviations in the data. I.e. the only thing we can infer is that someone who uses IE is more likely to have a lower IQ than a person who uses, say chrome. It does not mean that everyone who uses IE has a lower IQ than someone who uses chrome. Or perhaps it means someone with a higher IQ is more likely to use a non-default browser. As it is impossible to determine which of the two is the cause. In fact it is possible that neither is the cause and that there might be a 3th process going on in the background that explains the correlation. Or it is just dumb coincidence. TL;DR this sort of stuff isn't science. It canb e used as tools but nothing more. Also it made this picture from the SFW thread a bit more funny, because its true :D ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/X3LaK.jpg) | ||
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Cyba
Romania221 Posts
So every person in the world that can barely move the mouse a bit uses IE, while other browsers are usually used by computer literate people, which are usually of average or high inteligence. And they even post it by version...biased much? Though in honesty i'm impressed safari's that high i always thought you had to be a fool to use that junk :D | ||
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ZaaaaaM
Netherlands1828 Posts
On July 31 2011 00:49 Cosmos wrote: All the korean players use IE, do you think they are dumb? It is just that many korean sites are optimized for IE... I have no idea, they may very well be dumb. Being good in sc doesn't make you an alround intelligent person. | ||
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munchinghippo
Canada24 Posts
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bluzark
Belgium68 Posts
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Duka08
3391 Posts
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Deadlyfish
Denmark1980 Posts
On July 31 2011 02:01 bluzark wrote: I have been using Opera since 1996, that is all :D In 2006 you only had in IQ of 100 though : / Lets hope 2012 will be a good year :D | ||
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XiaoJoyce-
China2908 Posts
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Dagobert
Netherlands1858 Posts
All this means is that IE-users who took the IQ test on that site were likely to score low, Opera users were likely to score high, etc. [Notice that scoring low can be the result of not taking the test seriously, too] No other conclusions can be drawn from this, because: Internet IQ tests usually have no validity or generalisability to speak of (since they usually aren't normed to represent the population of users frequenting the site), and since I don't see anything that would give me a reason to assume that proper controls were in place (were the subjects equally dedicated to the test?, did they have comparable hardware equipment, was there a time limit or was 'googling answers' possible?, did they make sure people only participated once?, etc. ), so the reliability of the testing is highly questionable. | ||
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niteReloaded
Croatia5282 Posts
On July 31 2011 02:04 Deadlyfish wrote: In 2006 you only had in IQ of 100 though : / Lets hope 2012 will be a good year :D nice | ||
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Hikari
1914 Posts
I really like the lightweighted chrome and the speed it offers! | ||
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FeUerFlieGe
United States1193 Posts
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Z3kk
4099 Posts
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Cri du Chat
Germany606 Posts
Those sure give accurate results. | ||
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Biff The Understudy
France8214 Posts
On July 31 2011 01:57 DisneylandSC wrote: Thats the funny thing about statistics. You never know which of the 2 causes the other. Now I would like to argue that someones intelligence influences the choice of browser. For example Opera is very popular among programmers etc. In order to be able to code you need a certain treshhold of intelligence. Internet explorer on the other hand is used by pretty much everyone. Obviously when you compare these two groups the later will have a lower average IQ. As for your girlfriend and also what you said after. These are statistics over a large group of people. For all we know there are huge deviations in the data. I.e. the only thing we can infer is that someone who uses IE is more likely to have a lower IQ than a person who uses, say chrome. It does not mean that everyone who uses IE has a lower IQ than someone who uses chrome. Or perhaps it means someone with a higher IQ is more likely to use a non-default browser. As it is impossible to determine which of the two is the cause. In fact it is possible that neither is the cause and that there might be a 3th process going on in the background that explains the correlation. Or it is just dumb coincidence. TL;DR this sort of stuff isn't science. It canb e used as tools but nothing more. Also it made this picture from the SFW thread a bit more funny, because its true :D As much as IQ is a completely stupid and abusive notion, a much taking any conclusion from raw statistics like that is equally stupid and abusive. I agree with you, except for one point. You don't need to be intelligent to do coding and to be a programmer. You need one very specific type of intelligence, which doesn't have more value than any other type, and that everybody can learn. IQ is so stupid that with a proper training, you can get 30 or 40 points more in a week. That's really rock solid. | ||
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KasPra
Estonia983 Posts
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lurked
Canada918 Posts
Just asking... | ||
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