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Browser Usage and Intelligence: Opera is the smart choice

I'm not impressed with the methodology. This conclusion in particular is invalid based on many factors suggested by other posters already.


In addition, the results were compared to a previous unreleased study of a similar nature undertaken in 2006. The average IQ score of the individuals using the then current version of IE was significantly higher than the individuals using the current version of IE now, implying that a lot of people with higher IQ are moving away from IE to other browsers.
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Childlike Empress said:
This comes as no surprise to us Opera users:
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FWIW, when trying Opera I always have the feeling that something about this product is totally and wholly beyond my grasp*.







* For examply, why it has to look and behave as if it were assembled from the junkyard when run on KDE**.



** I suppose it is the same on Gnome, or Xfce, or so too. No idea about Win.
 
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Lord Emsworth said:
FWIW, when trying Opera I always have the feeling that something about this product is totally and wholly beyond my grasp*.







* For examply, why it has to look and behave as if it were assembled from the junkyard when run on KDE**.



** I suppose it is the same on Gnome, or Xfce, or so too. No idea about Win.
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I liked Opera a lot when I used Windows. But now that I use Gnome/Unity, it looks very much out of place. There are skins for it, but none for the themes I use. And I doubt I'd be good at creating a theme. Chromium has the same problem but I'd still use it back in Firefox 3 times.

It's a shame because Opera is excellent in terms of features 'out of the box', so to speak.
 
icerat said:
Or it may be that other browsers are harder to use and require more intelligence to figure out?
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That's what I was thinking. Except I don't fine IE easier. It is the default though, so I would expect people who care less about the issue to use it. Not sure how that would be related to IQ...
 
A hoax with something people already knew is true from mountains of empirical evidence? Sounds strange. I think what we're seeing here is either
  • a valid study which is now claimed to be a hoax because their commercial site atCheap.com will soon be taken over by Microsoft, and not at cheap.
  • reverse psychology coming out of the cellar of Microsoft PR - they knew their users are dumb and perpetrated the whole thing to create the meme that this obvious truth is a "hoax".
Kidding. Well played, Tarandeep Gill.

Anyways, I have been recently reading about Memetics. I am a big fan of Dr. Richard Dawkins and theory of evolution of life, and it was really amazing to see the same theory being applied to “ideas” or “memes.” According to the theory of Memetics, ‘survival of the fittest’ theory applies to ideas as well. Strong ideas survive, multiply and evolve over time, whereas weak ones die.

So, frustrated with IE (and the fact that you can not have all the 4 versions on one computer to test your website), I went on to create a meme that would result in some awareness and hopefully convince a few IE users to stop using it.
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Almo said:
That's what I was thinking. Except I don't fine IE easier. It is the default though, so I would expect people who care less about the issue to use it. Not sure how that would be related to IQ...
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I was only playing devil's advocate to the original story, not actually claiming IE was easier.

Personally I think the definition of an "intuitive interface" I read years ago still holds very much true. "Intuitive" = "whatever you're used to"
 
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