Internet Explorer users on average dumberA new study establishes links between the browser and intelligenceThe Canadian consulting firm psychometrics AptiQuant published a study last week, the cognitive abilities of computer users with Web browsers used by them in connection brings. The statistics of the underlying data calculated AptiQuant supposedly a free Hamburg-Wechsler Intelligence Test, in which took part in four weeks over 101 326 adults.The test, the participants met with the most information about a search engine, has been completed the information according AptiQuant online and ran equally well on all browsers, so that should be ensured that the results are not distorted by demolition or browser will change. Although the users were told that their results would be used anonymously for a scientific study, but you did not know exactly what it was. This was intended to exclude conscious or unconscious manipulation. The results from children under the age of 16 were filtered out.Judging by the comments under the news about the study, the results of a sensual certainty of many people: Cut them in their users on the Internet Explorer with an average IQ of under 100 worst. Chrome, Firefox and Safari surfers are with average values ​​between 100 and 120 in the middle and people who go with Camino, Opera, or Internet Explorer to the web with Chrome Frame lie, with values ​​above 120 at the top.Would explain the result, among other things, that installing a different browser than the preinstalled Internet Explorer either an IT manager or his own thoughts on speed, safety and efficiency requires. However, the user should then also cut the pre-installed Safari browser worse. Unless one would assume that Apple buyers not only have more money available, but also smarter.Update: After the Fima AptiQuant not respond to requests, it currently looks as if one would find no explanation for the effect, because the paper about the reported including the BBC, CNN and Frorbes may not be really determined data based. This came to light, as a BBC readers noticed that the company's Web site first went online last month. However, this would also explain the fact that the intelligence test was offered on a different domain. In addition, however, also faces the same conspicuously on the personnel side, those on the online presence of one other company, which denied an appropriate exchange with AptiQuant.2nd Update: Meanwhile, the owner gave to the AptiQuant domain, determines the data for the study, but to have invented. It claims to be you went about making the drawbacks of the browser pre-installed carefully. The Internet Explorer users are no more stupid than people who use other browsers (like say some hasty correction reports), this does not of course - only that such studies continue to stand (IE users but not stupid).