It’s Official..

by Indloon • 30 Jul 2011, 11:58 • Journals

IE Users Have a Lower IQ!


This will please many web developers. A recent survey by AptiQuant, a psychometric consulting company based in Canada, has concluded that Internet Explorer users have a lower Intelligence Quotient than users of other browsers. Those with IE6 scored little over 80. Firefox, Chrome and Safari users fared better at 110. The most intelligent people — with an average IQ of 125 — use Opera (that’ll please their marketing department!)

The 2011 assessment sampled 101,326 individuals over the age of 16 from the US, Canada, UK, Australia and New Zealand. The company offered a free IQ test which most participants found via organic search results or PPC advertising campaigns. Subjects were not aware their browser preference was being monitored.
image: 559-ie-low-iq-chart
The researchers observed:
  • IE users had a significantly lower IQ.
  • There was little difference in the IQ for Firefox, Chrome and Safari users.
  • Individuals using Opera, Camino, and IE with Chrome Frame had the highest average IQ.


Comparing the results to a 2006 survey, the report suggests that people with higher IQs have moved away from Internet Explorer during the past five years. Those at the lower end of the IQ scale tend to resist change and browser upgrades (and possibly upgrading any software).

The results are not surprising. Those with lower levels of IT literacy do not know what a browser is and will simply use whatever application is installed on their PC. In most cases, that will be Internet Explorer.

Similarly, power users and developers will investigate different options and actively keep their software up-to-date. It’s logical that Opera — a lesser-known browser with a steeper learning curve — attracts users with a higher IQ.

It will be interesting to see whether this simple survey has a greater effect than all the “abolish IE6&marketing campaigns. Let’s hope so.

For more information:

Obviously, you’ll want to view those links in Opera!

By sitepoint.
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Domi 30 Jul 2011, 13:01
Opera ftw.
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slajdan 30 Jul 2011, 13:03
IE users with chrome frame is stephen william hawking clones
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HIRVI 30 Jul 2011, 13:10
Was looking to making journal about this but you were faster.
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Indloon 30 Jul 2011, 13:14
Yap,I'm using Opera!
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huumeantti 30 Jul 2011, 13:18
i gots da opera, i gots da brens
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BIAcky 30 Jul 2011, 13:37
Opera ftw!

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beAsty 30 Jul 2011, 14:32
have used it ~2 years ago for a long time.. but it always had little bugs in websites and no addonds that u could compare with the firefox ones. Now i see that there are addons for opera :o and since i always have 40+ tabs opened (which crashes firefox and slows down the whole computer alot) i will give opera a try again :)

i just wonder about that opera turbo.. with my 20/1 mbit/s conection it won't give me any advantage?
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Staary 30 Jul 2011, 15:54
i use opera turbo as proxy :D it's a polish proxy actually
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beAsty 30 Jul 2011, 16:18
opera turbo as a proxy... well i guess it wont be secure at all :S
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Hellgast 30 Jul 2011, 16:14
"US, Canada, UK, Australia and New Zealand"... well... count US out... to many Mexicans anyway. (they probably did the test for them). And well Canada... said enough. Australia OK, I'm actually ok with that. And new Zealand... other side of the world for me so I wouldn't know.

I'm using Firefox. Where is the test of Firefox users being the best owners in ET? Look, that's something I would believe!
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