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Pēc AptiQuant petījuma, pārlūka “Internet Explorer 6” lietotāju vidējais IQ ir aptuveni 80, savukārt pārlūku “Firefox” un “Chrome” lietotāju vidējais IQ ir aptuveni 110. Cilvēki ar vislielāko IQ – 120 un vairāk – lieto pārlūkus “Opera” un “Camino”.

Amizantākais grafiks.

Visvairāk sasmējos par to, ka IE lietotāji esot ļoti sāpīgi uztvēruši šo informāciju un pat draudot iesūdzēt tiesā pētījuma veicējus.

AptiQuant stressed that using IE doesn’t mean you have low intelligence. “What it really says is that if you have a low IQ then there are high chances that you use Internet Explorer,” said AptiQuant CEO Leonard Howard.

Ja tu lieto IE, tad nesatraucies – vienkārši esi informēts, ka šo pārlūku vairāk lietos cilvēki, kuriem ir zems IQ. Tavs IQ var būt pat ļoti augsts. 🙂

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Pēc N.R. ieteikuma te būs arī iespējamie iemesli šiem pētījuma rezultātiem.

• IE has about twice the installed base of any other browser, so IQs are more likely to tend toward the mean.

• IE is the default browser of 95% of people who don’t know how to download and install a new browser, which drags down the average. (Mac users in this boat stick with Safari.)

• People who use other browsers include a disproportionate number of computer geeks, which brings their averages up.

• Online IQ tests — or IQ tests in general — are silly.

• IE users really are kind of dumb.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/study-internet-explorer-users-are-dumber-2011-7?op=1#ixzz1TwoF0umY

A story which suggested that users of Internet Explorer have a lower IQ than people who chose other browsers appears to have been an elaborate hoax.
A number of media organisations, including the BBC, reported on the research, put out by Canadian firm ApTiquant.

It later emerged that the company’s website was only recently set up and staff images were copied from a legitimate business in Paris.