Internet Explorer users "have a lower IQ"

[scooterscot]

Was their ever a doubt?

The lower your IQ, the more likely you are to use Internet Explorer, according to a massive online survey.

AptiQuant, a Canadian firm that provides online employment assessments, polled 101,326 people online, finding a relationship between IQ and browser choice.

"A significant number of individuals with a low score on the cognitive test were found to be using Microsoft Internet Explorer versions 6.0 to 9.0," the report found.

Improve your IQ today, get a Mac!!

[gingerjedi]

Improve your IQ today, get a Mac!!

Or use Firefox.

[DimPrawn]

Is use Internet Explorer V1

[oracleslave]

Was their ever a doubt?[/URL]

Is there a relationship between IQ and basic literacy?

[SimonMac]

Explains why so many Government's still use IE6

[PAH]

Or use Firefox.

Or Chrome.

Currently use all three browsers on my PC.

I use IE for CUK and other forums where it's automatically logged in as I can't be arsed digging out the details to set it up on a different browser.

Use Firefox for a couple of plug-ins. e.g. Property Bee that shows house price change history on Rightmove. So when Nationwide, Halifax et al (with vested interests in getting people to buy property) say prices are going up I can have a laugh at all the price reductions over the last year or two. None of the properties I've looked at show price increases, but then I'm not interested in tulipholes like London.

Use Chrome for everything else as it's the fastest overall and my current favourite.

How's my IQ?

[SimonMac]

Or Chrome.

Currently use all three browsers on my PC.

I use IE for CUK and other forums where it's automatically logged in as I can't be arsed digging out the details to set it up on a different browser.

Use Firefox for a couple of plug-ins. e.g. Property Bee that shows house price change history on Rightmove. So when Nationwide, Halifax et al (with vested interests in getting people to buy property) say prices are going up I can have a laugh at all the price reductions over the last year or two. None of the properties I've looked at show price increases, but then I'm not interested in tulipholes like London.

Use Chrome for everything else as it's the fastest overall and my current favourite.

How's my IQ?

Still low as you can do all that with Chrome so no need for the other two

[original PM]

here we go another great example of a comparison being drawn between 2 unrelated statistics

many people who first use the internet etc will be doing it probably on a bog standard PC - which comes with IE as standard.

The actual stat is that the first experience many people will have with a browser will be IE and as that will also include the low IQ demograph who may then never go on to use other browsers then you will always get a statistic which shows low IQ users use IE - not out of choice I think is the key

burble burble

[xoggoth]

As original PM said. Using other browsers requires basic skills in searching, downloading and installing.

[russell]

Chrome is the finest in my opinion, very fast (starting up and browsing) and plenty of extensions. I also like the sync feature, means all my devices have same bookmarks etc. I think firefox has this now also. Anyone using IE should be taken round the back and shot.