Hahaha! This is such an attention-grabber in the seemingly-never-ending browser war:
Internet Explorer users have 'below-average IQ'
OK people. We've all heard how Internet Explorer (IE) was vulnerable to script attacks, how webapps using ActiveX sucked ("I don't have IE and I can't run this?..."), crappy OS integration (not that one has the choice!) etc etc... But I have to say, IE has gone a long way from those dark, old days. The IE nowadays (ver 9.0 as of today) isn't that bad. At least to the ordinary Joe Smith behind the computer, it's a very useable browser.
Simple. Gets the work done. Font doesn't look as smooth as Safari but, hey, that's no matter.
That brings out an important point. Joe Smith is most likely an ordinary folk and not a computer geek. He will just use what is tossed onto him by Microsoft, i.e., IE.
By this logic, since there are more ordinary folks - who, we can safely assume, will have an averagely lower IQ than computer geeks, who has skewed IQ scores [or they're not geeks!] - using IE, IE users will have an averagely lower IQ score. This does not take anyone with high IQ to figure out (but alas! I can't tell if this is true for newspaper people... :p)
By saying IE users have lower IQ, one misses a crucial point. IE is still a far more popular browser than the others. If only Linux geeks would use Lynx, I'm sure Lynx would top the IQ charts since Linux people, really, are very smart (this I tell from personal experience ;-)
So the only reason for this trivial news is the juicy news value. Newspaper people have a beefy story that sells so they don't mind publishing it; Microsoft haters like a field-day on basically any anti-M$ matter so they won't mind coming out to bask under the glorifying 'computer-is-free-for-all' sun and condemn IE to the gutters. Everyone else would just laugh at the age-old "IE is stupid" slogan.
There are truly many other things that matter, people. Laugh all we can, but please, do move on when the light is out.
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Update 2011.08.10: This non-sense is actually a hoax! Blah... what a surprise.
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