Who uses Opera and why?
IQ scores in relation to web browser choice
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#12Re: IQ scores in relation to web browser choice
#13It is common knowledge, that Internet Explorer Versions to 6.0 to 8.0 are highly incompatible with modern web
standards. In order to make websites work properly on these browsers, web developers have to spend a lot of
unnecessary effort. This results in an extra financial strain on web projects, and has over the last decade cost
millions of man-hours to IT companies
So, dumb people keep IT employed.
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#14Amusing, but it's kind of a truism. Changing your browser requires cognitive capacity. Those who change it the fastest have the highest cognitive capacity. Even without other explanations, that explains variations of version within a single browser, and to some extent Chrome and Firefox.
The really surprising thing for me was Opera. You can't explain that with mere willingness to update or try something new.
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#15The study mentioned that they collect operating system data as well; the subsequent writeup on that might prove quite interesting.
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#16It is common knowledge, that Internet Explorer Versions to 6.0 to 8.0 are highly incompatible with modern web standards. In order to make websites work properly on these browsers, web developers have to spend a lot of unnecessary effort. This results in an extra financial strain on web projects, and has over the last decade cost millions of man-hours to IT companies So, dumb people keep IT employed.
Or, dumb people reduce functionality for the rest of us because work has to go into handling their mistakes rather than coding the better product the devs really wanted to make.
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#17Who uses Opera and why?
It has some features that are fairly unique and I appreciate their experimentation. For example, Unite makes it very easy for your average person to share music, files, a streaming webcam, or whatever from within their browser. It's a great way to do something like let a friend listen to a cool album you just discovered without either of you ever leaving the browser. I still prefer Chrome on the desktop but I respect the developers and what they're trying to do.
On the other hand, I do use Opera on my phone. I find tab switching to be much more natural than it is with the default Android browser and I also appreciate the option of proxying traffic through their servers where it is compressed and stripped down to a mobile format. It cuts down on bandwidth and cpu usage which I like, particularly if the data connection is being spotty.
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#18Excellent. Now I can convert all of the people I know who still use IE to opera. "SMART PEOPLE USE OPERA, YOU WANT TO BE CONSIDERED SMART, DON'T YOU?!"
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#19Amusing, but it's kind of a truism. Changing your browser requires cognitive capacity. Those who change it the fastest have the highest cognitive capacity. Even without other explanations, that explains variations of version within a single browser, and to some extent Chrome and Firefox. The really surprising thing for me was Opera. You can't explain that with mere willingness to update or try something new.
Popular browsers are "dragged down to 100" by the mass of people who install the browser because of techie friends, or fashion.
In the second graph you can notice there are many more high IQs individuals using firefox and chrome rather than opera.
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#20IQ will be lower the more market share, so this is silly.