[ Thanks to James
Maguire for this link. ]
“Users of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser have lower IQs
than users of alternative browsers, according to a widely
circulated story in the past week. Too bad the story is fake. And
just about everybody fell for it.“The original hoax story reported that a company called
ApTiquant conducted a study to rank the relative intelligence of
browser users. It turns out, as the BBC discovered, that the
ApTiquant web site had been put up within the past month and used
staff photos from another company’s web site along with fake
names.“Why is everybody so quick to believe a hoax story like this? If
the IQ claim had been made about members of one political party or
the other, the hoax would have been exposed in minutes. Why isn’t
there more skepticism out there about technology-based claims?”