You All Got Taken For A Ride!: Internet Explorer/Intelligence Study A HOAX!
 

Yeppers, you all got taken for a ride right here:

https://gfy.com/showthread.php?t=1032667

so head'em up and move'em out!

You shall know the Truth and the Truth shall make you mad!:


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

"BBC News Technology
3 August 2011 Last updated at 07:04 ET
Internet Explorer story was bogus

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.

It is unclear who was behind the stunt.

The story was reported by many high profile organisations including CNN, the Daily Mail, the Telegraph and Forbes.

Questions about the authenticity of the story were raised by readers of the BBC website who established that the company which put out the research - ApTiquant - appeared to have only set up its website in the past month.

Thumbnail images of the firm's staff on the website also matched those on the site of French research company Central Test, although many of the names had been changed.

The BBC contacted Central Test who confirmed that they had been made aware of the copy but had no knowledge of ApTiquant or its activities.
Research claims

ApTiquant issued a press release claiming that it had invited 100,000 web users to take IQ tests and matched their results with the type of browser they used.

It also supplied extensive research data.

The results claimed to show that Internet Explorer users were generally of lower intelligence.

The BBC sought alternative views for the original story, including Professor David Spiegelhalter of Cambridge University's Statistical Laboratory, who said: "I believe these figures are implausibly low - and an insult to IE users."

No-one on ApTiquant's contact number was available for comment.

Graham Cluley, senior security consultant at Sophos examined the source material for the BBC after concerns were raised.

"It's obviously very easy to create a bogus site like this - as all phishers know it's easy to rip-off someone else's webpages and pictures," he said.

Mr Cluley also looked at the pdf file containing the data that many people had downloaded from a variety of sources and said it did not appear to contain malware."

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http://i1220.photobucket.com/albums/...pid_people.jpg

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who cares, but i think anybody using IE older than new one dont know better :)

If they did a study on this I bet they would get the same result. :1orglaugh

i bet BBC is using IE :)))

:2 cents:

we all know you use IE gramps.

gotta use it for testing for sure ;)

You must be an ie user, only an ie user would be stupid enough to make a entire new thread for all of 5 people.

This is why teletext will always rule, it makes me feel like a genius every time :D

hehheheh

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

you mad cause you use IE? ha! your stupid

I'm waiting for them to come out with a study of the IQ of those who pretend to be a woman on an adult webmaster board

hoax or not it was still pretty accurate

http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/8...manwarning.jpg

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