EPT"Internet Explorer used mostly by the dumb people" - Page 8
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Fontong
United States6454 Posts
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lvatural
United States347 Posts
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Talack
Canada2742 Posts
What would be the biggest factor is what they browse with the browser not what they're using to view it with. That's like saying people who use iPods are less intelligent than people who use an MP3 player to listen to lady gaga. | ||
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Paragleiber
413 Posts
I also think in general that this probably rather says something about the people who don't even know about custom browsers at all and just use what is installed by default and it doesn't apply that much to the people who know about the different browsers but still use IE because they want to. | ||
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Neo7
United States922 Posts
On July 31 2011 00:38 gulati wrote: Funny, interesting story. It won't spread, and I doubt anybody will ever hear about it again (fortunate or unfortunate - that's your call). I also think it's a good assessment to sue this research company. They are accusing Microsoft of "a conspiracy with Internet Explorer’s shell integration with Windows Explorer, and making its removal complicated, if not impossible." Whether or not that is true, the courts will find out. That's totally uncalled for. I'd also like to state that nowhere in that report does it state "independent research". It's pretty salient why this report came out then...  To further expand on this, IE's shell is actually very important to the Management Console. I cannot read the Event Viewer when I need to diagnose my computer without a version of IE greater than 5.5 (and Event Viewer will close itself if it doesn't detect one). Several users underestimate how useful Event Viewer is but considering how verbose and tucked away it is, maybe it's for the best (kind of wish Action Center could integrate a bit better with Event Viewer to give warnings about potential problems instead of the usual nags). So onward to my opinion of IE and the article... I don't think it's going to spread at all. Internet Explorer isn't all too popular with anyone that has some idea of what it's like to be a power user (even if they're bad at being one) but it is a very useful backup browser to use in a pinch. I know my university built their web services around IE's tech so I have to use IE to access it so there's a small group of "exceptions" to the claim of many users being dumb in using it. IE9 (to me) seems to be the only browser that has managed to get hardware acceleration done right without any compromise in stability or font rendering and other things (both Firefox and Chrome are constantly pushing out better hardware acceleration solutions but both are not very stable thus far so we shall see. Opera's vegas engine doesn't really do it for me). This may or may not be appealing to other users. Microsoft also offers that Bing rewards program which used to be an incentive though I really dislike this approach since it's essentially Microsoft paying you to use their products (instead of investing into a better browser). I think IE9 is rated to be the best on battery life: http://www.winrumors.com/microsoft-internet-explorer-9-uses-less-laptop-battery-life-than-rivals/ But this is a report from Microsoft so expect some biased information (though according to the data, Firefox does give it a run for it's money and probably will get the same battery life out of it). While I do agree that IE overall just lacks what it takes to keep up with the 3rd party browsers, I do not agree with the userbase that's being claimed to be behind IE. A lot of people around me that know almost nothing about computers seem to know about Google Chrome and that is their choice in browsers. I know my computer's schools have firefox installed to be used so many students know about that. Many of the "below IQ average" people tend to visit facebook or twitter or some other social website and they display just fine with IE so even then I don't see the major problem with it. It's quite a ridiculous claim to make. | ||
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Jedclark
United Kingdom903 Posts
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Moldwood
United States280 Posts
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Slaughter
United States20255 Posts
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Xelnas
Canada65 Posts
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radiatoren
Denmark1907 Posts
Basically it seems like someone has made up data from a personal preference and presented them as science. | ||
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Achromic
773 Posts
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Tweleve
United States644 Posts
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HellRoxYa
Sweden1614 Posts
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sirkyan
211 Posts
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Zooper31
United States5714 Posts
Doesn't mean I'm dumb, I just don't feel like changing something that hasn't treated me badly yet. I didn't have any problems with vista either, but I do have Windows 7 now. | ||
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Eppa!
Sweden4641 Posts
Completely pointless survey. | ||
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radiatoren
Denmark1907 Posts
"Commercials of a free IQ-test was offered in certain browsers" - In my experience not a representable sample at all and only for certain browsers is... "The scores were stored in a database along with the user’s age, gender, Browser, Operating System, and geographic location determined from their IP Address." - So non-static ip = possibility of one person using the test 20 times or more? "The scores of 101,326 individuals were compiled in the report" - Actually a fine samplesize, BUT almost useless for statistical purpose if the groups have very different numbers of users - which I suspect. The company seems like a smart psychology and business-graduate, with very limited experience in scientific handling and statistics, trying to make money off the human resource-departments by making them believe his fantastic abilities to find "the guy" for them. The report is scientifically unsound. | ||
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uiCk
Canada1925 Posts
lol@this ``study`` | ||
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r.Evo
Germany14081 Posts
Having IQ above 120: Check. I hereby fully approve of this study. =D In all seriousness though, "Intelligence" (not exactly IQ) includes figuring out what works best in certain situations. That, by definition, excludes using IE for browsing. qed. | ||
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clayn
Germany444 Posts
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