[GLLUG] Using Internet Explorer

Clay Dowling clay at lazarusid.com
Mon Aug 1 14:32:19 EDT 2011


On 8/1/11 1:43 PM, Phil Smith wrote:
> Is this confirmation of what most suspected? :)
>
> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/internet/8674678/Internet-Explorer-users-have-below-average-IQ.html
>
It has less to do with browser features and more to do with people's
incentives to change.  For something like 75% of the population IE is
the default browser.  It takes higher IQ to even know there is an
option, let alone take the initiative to learn about it and install it.

You could do an identical study comparing religion and intelligence.  In
this country, it would show Christians being the least intelligent,
Muslims being brighter and Atheists as the smartest.  It's not that you
have to be dumb to be a Christian or a Muslim, it's that those two are
more likely to represent the default, unquestioned state for most
people.  Atheism, on the other hand, tends to take a lot of
self-questioning that somebody of lower intelligence isn't even going to
think to do.  And by the way, I'm not pulling those rankings out of my
kiester, there are plenty of studies to show that, and militant Atheists
who like to throw them in the face of the faithful.


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