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People who use Internet Explorer have lower IQs than people who use other browsers like Firefox or Google Chrome, a new study finds.
AptiQuant, a Vancouver, B.C., company founded in 2006, administered 101,326 IQ tests to people who visited their website over a four-week period. Researchers hypothesized that since tech-savvy people are typically smarter, those who adopted new browsers in recent years probably had a higher IQ. They were right.
"A significant number of individuals with a low score on the cognitive test were found to be using Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) versions 6.0 to 9.0," the study found.
Visitors to AptiQuant's website arrived via search engines and ads looking to take a free IQ test. The company told them it was collecting some personal information for a study, but didn't reveal the nature of the study.
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Come to find out this is a hoax. A pretty elaborate hoax that fooled most every major news outlet. The fake site lifted most of the content of its site from another French site and looked pretty convincing. Convincingly Fake!
AptiQuant, a Vancouver, B.C., company founded in 2006, administered 101,326 IQ tests to people who visited their website over a four-week period. Researchers hypothesized that since tech-savvy people are typically smarter, those who adopted new browsers in recent years probably had a higher IQ. They were right.
"A significant number of individuals with a low score on the cognitive test were found to be using Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) versions 6.0 to 9.0," the study found.
Visitors to AptiQuant's website arrived via search engines and ads looking to take a free IQ test. The company told them it was collecting some personal information for a study, but didn't reveal the nature of the study.
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Come to find out this is a hoax. A pretty elaborate hoax that fooled most every major news outlet. The fake site lifted most of the content of its site from another French site and looked pretty convincing. Convincingly Fake!
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