Hands up IE users.

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Tue Aug 02, 2011 10:50 pm

No, that's a foot...

Lies, damn lies and statistics...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14370878

(But I am a FF user)

JensAyton · Post by **JensAyton** » Tue Aug 02, 2011 11:43 pm

That the Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk at Cambridge believes an IQ just outside one standard deviation below average – representing one eighth to one sixth of the population, depending how you interpret “low eighties” – is equivalent to “borderline deficient, marginally able to cope with the adult world” is rather troubling.

greenseng · Post by **greenseng** » Wed Aug 03, 2011 5:25 am

Agree with both of you.

Post by **Capt. Murphy** » Wed Aug 03, 2011 5:57 am

Quoted professor is talking out of his borderline deficient backside anyway. 'Official' medical definition according to the WHO and adopted by the British Institute of Learning Disability for a mild learning disability includes a tested and age adjusted IQ between 50 and 70. In the 80's is as Ahruman says within a range that should and is considered normal by professionals who understand what they are talking about.

Killer Wolf · Post by **Killer Wolf** » Wed Aug 03, 2011 6:21 am

so, explain why they're still using IE then?

j/k

Post by **another_commander** » Wed Aug 03, 2011 6:52 am

I just switched from IE to Camino and I can feel my IQ rising - slowly but steadily.

Killer Wolf · Post by **Killer Wolf** » Wed Aug 03, 2011 8:04 am

truthfully, i must say the recenter IEs have been a lot better. i was a devout Netscape Navigator man for years, due to IE having a rep as a security hazard. was forced into getting it for some OS updates tho and IE8 is pretty ok - mostly cos they stole a lot of Fkrfox's ideas. still prefer that browser, even tho some "features" are very annoying.

drew · Post by **drew** » Wed Aug 03, 2011 12:23 pm

I'm on Chrome at home and IE9 at work. IE9 is ok actually, a huge improvement on IE7.

Cheers,

Drew.

Mauiby de Fug · Post by **Mauiby de Fug** » Wed Aug 03, 2011 2:54 pm

Oops... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14389430

Commander Smivs · Post by **Smivs** » Wed Aug 03, 2011 4:50 pm

Well my allergy to anything microsoft is well known. My preferred browser is (and has been for years) Opera.

RyanHoots · Post by **RyanHoots** » Wed Aug 03, 2011 5:05 pm

Smivs wrote:
Well my allergy to anything microsoft is well known. My preferred browser is (and has been for years) Opera.

Same here. I stay away from Microsoft. I use Chrome (I'm a Google person).

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Wed Aug 03, 2011 5:39 pm

Mauiby de Fug wrote:
Oops... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14389430

So the next question is - why such an elaborate hoax? Especially one, that once it was out in the mainstream, wouldn't stand up to scrutiny...

Post by **Disembodied** » Wed Aug 03, 2011 5:51 pm

To highlight the prevalence of churnalism, maybe? Or perhaps to raise the issue of browser élitism, which doesn't have it's own word yet ("brobbery"?). I remember an old online "IQ test" which asked endless inane question, page after page, and eventually gave you a score based on how long it took for you to give up in disgust ... I think I scored somewhere in the low 20s on that one (it was a slow day).

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