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Even if it wasn't a hoax, it's still fairly meaningless. It doesn't seem unlikely that more intelligent users would be more likely to look for other options rather than using the OS-provided default. For the sake of illustration lets simplify: Users with an IQ over 100 look for alternatives, below 100 and they do not. Even if 80% of the higher IQ users ultimately choose Internet Explorer (which would indicate that it…
Besides the hoax, someone forgot about: "Voluntary response data are worthless." http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2772603
Because of that, this should have never even been published.
So, after all the stories, all the submissions, and all the hype, perhaps the whole thing was a hoax after all. Also interestingly, it looks like the BBC have changed the text on the referenced page. Originally it reported the story, but now it claims it's a hoax. Can anyone get the original text? I've not been able to get it from the Google cache. Here are some of the submissions of the story: http://news.ycombinato…
It is a bit annoying how the BBC non-transparently correct their articles. The old version is cached here: http://www.webcitation.org/60evsCAry
However IE and IQ are connected, I can't get how this kind of articles are of interest to the Hacker News community. Don't get me wrong, I don't mean any offense, it's only that I see this kind of "news" quite unworthy. - "Cool guys wear Nike" - "Powerful men drive Mercedes" - "Independent women buy Prada" etc..
In other words, even if it was true, what can we do with this knowledge? Oh, right: continue to judge people for their choice in a trivial matter.
The tech industry really needs to get over itself.
I know plenty of scientists and researchers who use windows because their programs run on it. The kind of professor who ask their kids why there are 20 toolbars in their browser, and the same night write up a quick 200 line python program to test some algo they read about in their favorite journal.