Matt King : By Design

I don't understand the value of this recent study that's revealed that Internet Explorer users have a lower IQ than users of other browsers.

In a way, since the advent of Firefox, I've been saying “you'd have to be thick to use anything other than a ‘modern’ browser like Chrome, Safari, Opera or Firefox”, but I didn't mean it literally.

Obviously I can't argue the results of the survey, but I can argue the premise. In a corporate environment, there is often no choice. I'm sure there are a huge number of, what society would consider, smart people — lawyers, bankers (well maybe not of late), etc., that use IE on a daily basis. Now for familiarity's sake or maybe through a lake of IT prowess (which surely doesn't have a link to IQ) they may continue to use IE on a home PC. So surely you can’t link a browser choice to IQ — it just isn’t as simple as that.

Let's use a good old fashioned analogy. It's like saying that all owners of a particular brand of car, say Audi for example, have a low IQ compared to other car owners — OK, bad analogy. :-O

If you are to take the results of this survey literally at least it does affirm something I’ve known all along — there is no IE on the Mac, therefore all Mac users have a high IQ.

I wouldn't be surprised to see survey results in the future that tells us that people who take online surveys have a low IQ.

Well it seems they are now going for the common man in a big way, with newspaper ads and large format poster advertisements. Guess this mean we will definately have to start testing our sites in this, admittedly, brilliant browser.