gloweyjoey said:His statement doesn't imply linux is better than windows at all.....spinal_cord said:Zetta_x said:It doesn't say that if you use IE your have a low IQ.
It says that people who have a low IQ on average use IE.
On average, if you have a low IQ, you probably are not very logical or a person with common sense. If you do not have a lot of common sense, chances are you do not understand technology or computers. Yet, people who don't understand technology or computers still use them along with windows. IE is the default internet browser for windows.
It makes sense why this is true. They would find that people who use linux distributions have a higher IQ than average vs Windows users. It's not saying that windows users are dumb, it's saying that pretty much everyone gets dumped into windows unless you are more technical savy to use linux distributions.
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I love how people think they don't have low IQ but they don't know anything about logic and misunderstand what is being said (because they make a logic error)
So you're saying that anyone intelligent must logically use linux because it's 'better'? imo people only prefer linux because it's free.
spinal_cord said:As a whole, the comments imply that Windows users don't understand technology and that people who understand technology will use linux. He suggests that linux is a more 'logical' choice. I fail to see how a choice made by a more logical person with a higher IQ would be worse (not better) than the choice made by a less intelligent illogical person. Therefore, the more 'logical' and 'intelligent' the choice, the 'better' the outcome.
QUOTE said:Is this purely IQ, or is this whether the people are tech savvy?
I know a lot of very intelligent people, who don't give a sh** about computers and software, the machines are installed for them and they can just about use them, because they aren't important to the tasks to which they direct their intelligence.
My mother used to work for a very intelligent physicist. She was brilliant in her field, but couldn't drive, couldn't cook for herself and she used to write all of his cheques, because she couldn't get his head around such "wastes of time", which disturbed her from her work.
I bet she now uses IE, because that is what her computer came installed with. Does using IE suddenly make a major physicist dumb?
The answer to that question is NO and if you read the article it the group is clearly saying Using IE does NOT make someone have a low IQ or is "DUMB". (I put dumb in quotes because the word was never used in the article, it was first used in this thread by a troll). It's stating that people with low IQs are less tech savvy and is in no way saying that using IE suddenly means the person doesn't have normal or high IQ.Dter ic said:I'm gonna throw this in.
QUOTE said:Is this purely IQ, or is this whether the people are tech savvy?
I know a lot of very intelligent people, who don't give a sh** about computers and software, the machines are installed for them and they can just about use them, because they aren't important to the tasks to which they direct their intelligence.
My mother used to work for a very intelligent physicist. She was brilliant in her field, but couldn't drive, couldn't cook for herself and she used to write all of his cheques, because she couldn't get his head around such "wastes of time", which disturbed her from her work.
I bet she now uses IE, because that is what her computer came installed with. Does using IE suddenly make a major physicist dumb?
RupeeClock said:Guess what guys? It was all an elaborate hoax, bull hockey.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14386833
You can't deny the inkling truth though, that if someone today is using IE6 of all things, they probably aren't too smart.
what is your warn levelBladexdsl said:now theres 2 threads like this in here
cwstjdenobs said:Biggest problem is for the results to be accurate or fair everyone has to take a different test. I.e. you'd give a physicist a different test to a, oh say street cleaner of the same age. And that physicist would have to answer what would look like harder questions right (in some sections) to get the same score. Now you have to do the same sort of tuning by where someone lives and grows up etc. So you wouldn't give a 14 year old from a 1st world country the same test as a kid growing up in the majority of sub-Saharan Africa. Or even adults from the same places.
Now when it comes to this study it wouldn't surprise me if they gave the same test to everyone. Those using opera are paying so probably better off (on average) than those using anything else, so they probably also have good educations, come from richer countries etc. Where a lot of those still using IE6 are probably using it because that's all the machines they can afford to access can handle. So you'll have a lot of 1st world professionals taking the same test as a lot of 3rd world labourers, where these populations will not have an even representation across browsers.