The Smartest Browser and OS

The IQ League maintain a "60 Second IQ Test" online. Interestingly, they correlate the results of this test with a number of statistics available from their server logs. Along with the geographical distinctions like city and country, the referrer and OS/Browser user-agent strings are also mined, to determine the Smartest Browser and OS. Cutting to the chase, the very smartest is Firefox on Unknown (which internal evidence suggests is MacOS-Intel), and the dumbest, as of this writing, is IE on WinNT. Quick! Test out and move the bars on the pretty graph! Can we make Slashdot.org the "Smartest Website in the World?" (It's currently number 2 behind ScienceBlogs.com.)

Still using safari or IE?

[Whiney Mac Fanboy]

Still using safari or IE? Means you're probably not too bright.

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[Gewalt]

I have a mac. Safari is a decent browser, but it fails epicly compared to FF as it does not have extensibility as a primary function. It's the plugins that make firefox awesome. IE and Safari just dont even compare. (Opera? not even in the same league as IE, let alone safari)

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[nbarriga]

So extensibility is your main/only reason for choosing a browser? What about speed, ease of use, % of pages rendered OK, safety? (Yes, I use Opera)

Re:Still using safari or IE?

[MadnessASAP]

Me too! I guess that makes us the entire opera market share.

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[Sparr0]

I disagree. I was an Opera user for years. I switched to Mozilla when it started to mature, but I still user Opera on occasion. Opera is the innovator in the field. They had GOOD full page zoom years before anyone else had anything even remotely close. They provided user-accessible stylesheet switching that rocked, including some default stylesheets that were a godsend for web development (label and outline block elements, etc). Don't forget user-agent switching. Also, Opera is damn fast, and it runs

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[aliquis]

More like: IE was included in the OS and Opera cost money / had ads, firefox didn't.

Opera would have been a bigger player than firefox if it wasn't that you had to see the fucking ads in Opera back in the day. Of course people prefer something free over adware/shareware if they the later one aren't much better.

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[flink]

CMD+Option + on the mac gives that to you on the system level and virtual resolutions does the same under X windows. I guess it's useful under MS Windows though. I've found that Firefox will usually respond to Ctrl++ if you hit it enough times though, so I've never really found myself missing zoom on WinNT.

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[aliquis]

Back in the day atleast firefox zoom changed the page layout and didn't worked for embedded content. Operas webpages still looked like the original, only bigger, same zoom everywhere.

FFox is a hack job.

[Foerstner]

I have a Mac, and I do web development. Previously, I used Firefox, with the User Agent Switcher, Venkman, Firebug, and Adblock. I considered these plugins indespensible.

Since the release of Safari 3, I use that, with SafariBlock. Why?

- Safari's Web Inspector makes Firebug, Venkman, and the DOM Inspector look like crude hacks.
- Safari's Develop menu has over a dozen popular UA strings pre-populated. It would take half an hour to look them all up and enter them into User Agent Switcher.
- SafariBlock is not q

Re:Still using safari or IE?

[Darkness404]

That is odd though, I have installed Firefox on many computers when I have done technical work, and most if not all still use IE as their primary browser usually filling it back up with spyware for me to remove again... About the only ways I know how to make people use Firefox is either A) switch Firefox to an IE icon, or B) delete all evidence of IE except for the .EXEs hidden in system folders. I highly, highly doubt that most Windows users using Safari are just the iTunes users, now, I would expect most of the downloads of Safari for Windows to have come from iTunes but downloads usually don't equal use of the browser.

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[pecosdave]

I've used this tactic on more than one person. Just hiding the crud out of IE does it for me. Once I've done this and they get used to the "other icon" they're fine. They don't even realize the difference since they were never power users to begin with.

Re:Still using safari or IE?

[God'sDuck]

If they have an IE-only site (like Netflix Watch-Now) I set the homepage on IE to Netflix, and the homepage on Firefox to whatever their homepage was. I tell them "The orange fox is the internet, the blue E is Netflix." Works fine.

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[Darkness404]

Job security my friend.

Well that would be great, the bad part is though, most of my "technical work" as I put it, is my friends/family saying that their computer is slow and would I fix it for them, so no, I don't get paid (though, I must say I would make a decent living if I did!)

Re:Still using safari or IE?

[The Master Control P]

You should charge. Otherwise there's no consequence for being stupid and no incentive to not be stupid.

Re:Still using safari or IE?

[Herby Sagues]

Actually, the timer function is apparently not working in IE with Vista (which counts as IE over NT). I get the same results if I wait a minute as if I get the answers immediately (which are pretty easy, though just in case I checked my answers were right with reliable sources). That would explain low Windows NT scores. I would actually be surprised if there was actually any significant correlation between browser use and IQ, given that most computer users use whatever someone else installed on their computers (IT, OEM or some friend). And if you think otherwise, you are probably confusing intelligent with computer savvy.

Re:Still using safari or IE?

[dafrazzman]

I would actually be surprised if there was actually any significant correlation between browser use and IQ, given that most computer users use whatever someone else installed on their computers (IT, OEM or some friend). And if you think otherwise, you are probably confusing intelligent with computer savvy.

I wouldn't be so doubtful. I'm sure there's a link between critical thinking and tendency to use Firefox over IE.

Assume you have a group of people of relatively moderate computer savviness. They all use IE, and you tell them all about Firefox. Some of them will say "Pssh... whatever" and conclude that IE is both adequate and familiar, making it easy to rationalize not considering a change. Others will note the benefits along with your shining recommendation and consider a switch.

If we conclude from this that the ones who blew it off think less critically (a debatable, but reasonable assumption), we will indeed see more critical thinking people using IE.

It isn't much of a leap then to say that Firefox users are in some way "smarter" than IE users.

If you can't say that, you can at least say that they're more likely to give a hoot about the test and try harder than the others.

"Curretly"?

[Kickersny.com]

Can we make Slashdot.org the "Smartest Website in the World?" (It's curretly number 2 behind ScienceBlogs.com.)

Are they serious?

Re:"Curretly"?

[Anonymous Coward]

And why does the poster think that a larger amount of Slashdot users taking the test will help bring up the score? This does not compute.

Dropping Score

[blavallee]

/. has dropped to number 11

Guess no one took into account the large sector of (insert field) managers that read slashdot.

Lower is better!

[Joce640k]

I looked at the questions and I think dropping to to 11th place is a good sign.

IQ test it ain't.

Re:Lower is better!

[physicsnick]

It's even worse than that. I got penalized for only answering ten questions. They suggested I answer twenty more to remove the penalty. IN 60 SECONDS!!!

The test gives you about two seconds per question. That's not even enough time for general knowledge (read: culturally dependant) questions which don't belong on an IQ test, let alone complex pattern matching. I'm sorry, but that's no kind of IQ test.

Re:Lower is better!

[DeadChobi]

Apparently these guys don't know what an IQ test is. The first question I got was a "general knowledge" question, which doesn't require any type of intellectual inference. It's just a matter of whether or not you've absorbed the knowledge somehow.

Re:Lower is better!

[cp.tar]

Not only that, but the knowledge is both language-specific and, worse, America-specific.

Let's assume that even the anagrams ("Which of these is not an anagram of an animal?" type of questions) don't pose a problem to non-native English speakers. But what about the question on the serial numbers of dollar bills? I haven't handled a dollar bill in my entire life; how would I know anything about serial numbers?

Indeed, an IQ test it ain't.

Oh, and another thing: I realized -- belatedly, though -- that it was 60 seconds per question. Now I must track down the damned cookie to re-take the test.
Hm. 8 am. After class, then.

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[Free the Cowards]

There was one question I got which talked about a guy who was 30 years old when he married his wife, who was 25 at the time. She died at age X, he died at age Y, how long was he a widower?

These no-talent ass clowns apparently were unable to realize that these ages give you a range of a year minus a day to either side, so that the "right answer" is going to a range including three years. Then they go and give you a choice between two years in that range, with one of them somehow being "wrong".

What a bunch of

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[Free the Cowards]

Let me elaborate a bit on what I meant. And thanks for the original numbers, that makes it easier.

So step one, she married him when she was 25 and died at 50. They were not, in fact, necessarily married exactly 25 years. There's a whole year in which she is 25, and a whole year in which she is 50. If she got married on her 25th birthday and died one day before her 51st birthday, she was married 26 years minus one day. If she got married one day before her 26th birthday and died on her 50th birthday, she was

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[fbjon]

A completely language-independent test that gives the score based on statistics of how previous people did [iqout.com]. The "questions" get more difficult the more you answer correctly, and when I say difficult, I mean really fscking difficult. Don't worry if you have no idea what the answer is, you'll get an easier one if you wait for the 45 seconds per question to expire.

Note that, as should be, the test only measures a specific kind of intelligence. No language or numerical stuff.

for foreign people it is a language test

[someone1234]

Real IQ tests should be language independent.

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[RpiMatty]

You don't have 60 seconds total.
If you answer in less than 5 seconds, you get 1 point.
If you answer in more than 45 seconds, you get 0.5 points.
If you answer somewhere in between, you get somewhere in between 0.5 and 1 point.

If your score is equal to the median, your IQ is 100.
For each standard deviation away from the median, your IQ changes by 15 pts.

From http://www.iqleague.com/iq-scores [iqleague.com]

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[Toonol]

So you're saying that, although it fails as an IQ test, approaching the test intelligently will lead to a better score?

Hmm...

Re:"Curretly"?

[Anonymous Coward]

A few minutes ago, /. was #8. Now it's #11. Way to go /.ers, you've proven how intelligent you really are.
Edit: In the amount of time it took me to write this and hit preview, /. dropped to #15.

Re:"Curretly"?

[Awptimus Prime]

Oh it'll go down further once I am done randomly clicking answers, saying I am from /. then deleting my cookie and repeating a few more times.

Re:"Curretly"?

[arotenbe]

Wait a minute... are you saying there's actually another person on /. who looks at the previews submitting them?

My Bad

[Max Littlemore]

I got stuck on the first question.

It said "Who is Winnie the Pooh's depressive donkey friend?" and I spent too long looking for the "How the fuck does knowing something about British children's fiction later bastardised by Disney tell you anything about my intelligence?" option.

Sorry everyone, I should have known better than to try and answer a question with a question.

Re:"Curretly"?

[rve]

The advertisement section on this slashdot page says more about the average /. user than an online test:

- Ads by google
- Linux gurus wanted
- Beautiful Russian girls for marriage
- Looking for a junior IT job?

Re:"Curretly"?

[The Ancients]

Can we make Slashdot.org the "Smartest Website in the World?" (It's curretly number 2 behind ScienceBlogs.com.)

Are they serious?

Dedly

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[palegray.net]

You have to understand that traditional metrics of intelligence don't apply to troll populations; they rely on "cumulative intelligence" instead of individual or averaged values. The fact that the average troll's intelligence is in the single digits is offset by their sheer numbers; some have speculated that the rise of SkyNet may actually be precipitated by the combined intellectual contribution of 1.57 billion troll-moderated Slashdot posts.

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[RuBLed]

And as of now, we're ranked 6 and falling... someone didn't get the memo and RTFA. I guess we could now prove the inverse of Moore's Law.

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[ucblockhead]

Yes, well, the editors likely didn't think about bell curves and statistics when they suggested that.

Re:"Curretly"?

[JustinOpinion]

And as of now, Slashdot is ranked 15.

To me, this says more about sample size (or lack thereof) in these stats. The sample sizes are probably so small that the ranks are just statistical artifacts of the scores of the few people coming from each site. Also I'm sure the average scores are highly skewed by people who start taking the test and then just get bored and randomly guess some answers to get it over with. For small samples, small aberrations (e.g. a few smart, stupid, or lazy users) can obviously greatly skew the average.

Stats are nearly meaningless without some estimation of the error bars (or at least mention of the sample size!). All that to say: I wouldn't take these stats too seriously! Moreover, it's likely that as more and more Slashdotters take the test, the average will drop further and further from its statistically-anomalous level, to a more reasonable average. (As would the other listed categories, if only more people took the test.)

(Note: that's all assuming the test itself is even a valid measure of IQ, which I find rather dubious.)

Re:"Curretly"?

[egomaniac]

As for the validity of the IQ test, it had two nearly identical Bible questions (which book comes after Genesis). Is such simple factual knowledge even relevant to IQ?

There's a slight correlation between basic knowledge like this and IQ, but it's hardly a useful type of question. Especially if the person you're testing isn't Christian.

For example, it asked me the date on which we dropped the bomb on Hiroshima... I knew it was 1945, but don't know the particular date. I wasn't even born until thirty years later. I'm not sure that the fact that I didn't happen to know the exact date off the top of my head means I'm not as smart as somebody who did.

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[witherstaff]

This is a joke of a test. It has some of the basic concepts down - visualization, pattern matching, logic puzzles - but the layout and the other sort of questions is not apt. I was asked about the Chunnel - sure I knew it, but local geography should not be applicable.

If anyone wants a real IQ test, take some of the mensa fun tests. [mensa.org] That will show what a real test is like.

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[Spy der Mann]

Can we make Slashdot.org the "Smartest Website in the World?" (It's curretly number 2 behind ScienceBlogs.com.)

Are they serious?

Congratulations! You passed the spelling test! :)

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[cigarky]

Super serial

IQ Test?

[homer_s]

Since when do IQ tests contain questions about the bible, dinosaurs, etc?

Not that I'm disappointed that I did so badly or anything...

Re:IQ Test?

[Coopjust]

Yeah, some of the questions I received were about the Beatles and Russian History. Those seem like historical knowledge tests, not intelligence quotient...

Re:IQ Test?

[Oktober Sunset]

Sorry, but how does knowing what date the H-bomb was dropped on Hiroshima measure any kind of intelligence?

That's general knowledge, and the ability to answer is dependent on culture, US or Japanese people would be be more likey to know the answer as it's a part of thier history. Linguistic inteligence is measured by things like the word logic ones (Retarded monkey, brain damaged baboon, the person who wrote that IQ test, Rocket scientist, which one is the odd one out?), all IQ tests should be answerable without any outside knowledge. What it is measuring is whether I can work out the calculation in my head, not if I was paying attention in history lessons 10 years ago.

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[Anonymous Coward]

The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima (Little Boy) wasn't an H-bomb.

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[Facetious]

Nor was the one dropped on Nagasaki (Fat Man). In fact, an H-bomb has never been used in war. (For the pedantic, "used" doesn't mean proliferation during the cold war. It means intentionally killing people.)

Re:IQ Test?

[Simon Brooke]

And to respond to your criticism that "the ability to answer is dependent on culture"... Well, that's the entire point. If you don't know culture, that reflects a deficiency in your social intelligence.

Ok, so if the questions referenced the Bhagavad Gita, the Quran and the Prose Edda - all extremely important cultural artifacts - they would form part of a useful test of your intelligence, would they?

Certainly if you don't know any culture, that reflects on your intelligence. But the fact that you don't know a specific culture does not. There are people in the world who've never read the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Rigsveda, or The Art of War. Those people aren't necessarily stupid.

Re:IQ Test?

[gujo-odori]

Mine had a questions about who is the creator according to Hinduism, and for what was Al Capone eventually imprisoned? While I happen to know the answers to those things, it has absolutely nothing to do with my IQ, nor would not knowing them. At this point, I'm only certain of one thing: my IQ is higher than that of anyone who thinks that's an IQ test.

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[Bjarke Roune]

The reason IQ tests normally are all about abstract reasoning is that that gives the most reliable assessment of IQ with the least number of questions. There is no reason an IQ test needs to look like that, it just happens to be the most reliable and time-efficient way to measure IQ.

In a way, any test at all is an IQ test, in that it is nearly impossible to devise any kind of mental test that does not measure IQ to some degree. String a lot of these kinds of semi-IQ tests together in the right way, and you

Re:IQ Test?

[Max Littlemore]

Apparently people smarter than you are have decided that "who is the creator according to Hinduism, and for what was Al Capone eventually imprisoned" are very relevant to your IQ.

Aaaah, that's one of those arguments stupid people make when trying to beat intelligent people in an argument.

The same kind of stupid people who think that intelligence can be assessed world wide from general knowledge questions which are obviously based in narrow cultural bounds. Stupid stupid stupid.

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[mrbluze]

Since when do IQ tests contain questions about the bible, dinosaurs, etc?

If you were intelligent enough, you wouldn't be asking such a question ;)

Re:IQ Test?

[schon]

I always get a giggle out of these "IQ" tests that require the use of javascript and cookies.

I guess if you visit their site with noscript, your IQ is so high it can't be measured!

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[phantomfive]

I did horribly and still got 102. That makes me fear for humanity.

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[wasted]

I did horribly and still got 102. That makes me fear for humanity.

There were a few I didn't know, (such as the name of Alexander's horse,) and it said that after answering 10 questions, many of them history, I am #111 in the world with a score of around 125. (It estimated my IQ at 142, with a 17 point penalty for only answering 10 questions.) I'm guessing it must be a small world after all, if I am in that position relative to the population.

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[sqrt(2)]

I do well on those ones! I fail at the math questions. Shape selection too because I can usually find logical/artistic ways to justify all the selections.

I'll own up to my score; I got a little over 110. It said something about a penalty for not answering enough questions. I don't think you can ever have a useful test for measuring something as complex as human intelligence either, same with personality tests. They might give you a very course understanding of something if your question is narrow enough, bu

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[andy753421]

From Wikipedia on the inventor of IQ tests: "His principal goal was to identify students who needed special help in coping with the school curriculum."

Since school curriculums tend to involve things such as Literature, History, and Science it makes complete sense that knowing a lot about earth history and the the most popular book in the world would increase your IQ.

Re:IQ Test?

[mrbluze]

the most popular book in the world

The most published, but I doubt even 1% of bibles have actually been read.

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[Spy der Mann]

Since when do IQ tests contain questions about the bible, dinosaurs, etc?

I suppose they penalize creationists' IQ :P

My first thought, too,

[Joce640k]

Q: "What's a female sheep called?"
Q: "Who published such-and-such in 1543?"

Oh, yeah, this is really testing my IQ...

Re:IQ Test?

[Eskarel]

While I agree with you that knowing something about other peoples religions is a useful thing to know, and while I might even agree with you that given that lapsed Christianity is the most prevalent religion in most western societies, knowing the exact contents of the bible, let alone the order of the books is really rather pointless.

Technically speaking you could be one of those folks who believe that every word in the bible is true and memorize every word in the bible so that you know what you believe and you still wouldn't actually have to know the order of the books(though unless someone cut up your bible and gave it back to you in random order as an experiment you probably would). Since even a devout follower doesn't actually need to know what book comes after Genesis, I doubt that someone of another faith(or lack thereof) should need to know that kind of detail.

If they really wanted to test cultural or historical knowledge of the bible they could have asked a whole lot more applicable questions.

Smartest, eh?

[phantomfive]

me->quickly changes user agent string to firefox/unkown

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[maxume]

Your score isn't showing up. Perhaps if you get more people to switch.

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[Xzzy]

Slashdotters should change theirs to 'Mozilla/1.1N' and intentionally answer all the questions wrong.. act surprised when it still scores above the WinNT group.

Great.

[One Childish N00b]

Is there any way this is not going to turn into a flamewar and/or an excuse to bash IE?
Come on, guys, we know it sucks. Let's have some news already.

Re:Great.

[FooAtWFU]

I dunno. We could distract people for a bit by bashing another of their spectacularly stupid entries, though, Googlebot/2.1 on Unknown! Stupid Googlebot. :(

The Beatles and IQ

[allanw]

How does knowing facts about the Beatles (2/10 questions) have anything to do with IQ?

A theory...

[Junta]

Perhaps the inability of someone to answer such a question when they are obviously taking the test through an internet connected browser could reflect badly on their intelligence ;)

That said, it scored me the lowest any such test has ever done.

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[oGMo]

Because wasting time taking inane tests on the internet shows a certain level of intelligence, if you get my drift. ;)

Your IQ is 100.44

[Miffe]

You are #5971 Smartest Human in the World

Oh well, it's at least lower than my slashdot-id.

Doesn't matter what you've scored...

[Jorophose]

I've received the perfect score. =)

http://www.iqleague.com/certificate/n9LjytSYn0y5JZqoAVDafg [iqleague.com]

No matter what you score..

[QuantumG]

they'll tell you that you're not very intelligent and that they can fix you.

Oh wait, that's Scientology.

Lynx

[Baavgai]

The method seems pretty wonky. Just one brilliant guy on some rarely used software took the test they could skew the thing in silly ways. Amaya rules!

their jscripts aren't particularly robust

[kurthr]

I discovered on one page load I couldn't select any answer. I tried loading the page using Greasemonkey and found that the page failed to load properly/completely within 1 minute 2% of the time.

Using Firefox 2.0.0.14 on W2K from Google-Wireless, it would appear that pre-fetch and other browser/connection attributes could have a significant effect on overall outcomes.

It's certainly interesting the that the 10th smartest country (UK) is barely above 100 IQ.

Everyone above average, indeed!

"IQ" test?

[ucblockhead]

Whoever wrote this "IQ" test is apparently not smart enough to understand how an IQ test works.

You can debate whether a real IQ test measures anything other than the ability to do well on IQ tests, however, real IQ tests don't depend on real world knowledge. That's the whole point of them. By my measure, 8 of the 10 questions it gave me are not even remotely worthy of being on an IQ test. For instance, knowing the date of the first olympiad is pretty much the definition of a question requiring real world knowledge.

Re:"IQ" test?

[JustinOpinion]

Yeah it seems more like a test of how quickly you can Google for answers.

Re:"IQ" test?

[Bill Wong]

even worse than you think. i wrote a short script and went through ~1500 questions and there were only 138 uniques.
it's trivial for anyone to just create a database of answers for that few a number of questions.
i'm already working on writing a bot to take the quiz automatically

Blind leading the blind?

[liegeofmelkor]

I'm sorry, but anyone who can't manage to put x-y axes on their plots isn't fit to analyze the intelligence of others.

Placement

[StormReaver]

"(It's curretly number 2 behind ScienceBlogs.com.)"

Now it's number 16. I'm Glad I could help.

Pffffffffftttttt

[Mattniche]

What a load of rot. I didn't read any questions and just did some random clicking. 85.26% is WAY higher than my IQ.

Very drunk right now

[Anonymous Coward]

... and happened to score 101. I don't know how I should take such information, but the following scares me:

16th in Raleigh
32nd in North Carolina

I mean, wtf. I can barely see straight right now. I guess that means, on average, my city/state is a bunch of drunkards?

#2? That's why...

[ohxten]

Can we make Slashdot.org the "Smartest Website in the World?" (It's curretly number 2 behind ScienceBlogs.com.)

*That's* why it's #2.

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[ohxten]

*cough* Also, the smartest is Mozilla on Unknown, not Firefox. And where the heck did you get the figure for the dumbest users? On the website it says 'AppleMAC-Safari on WinNT' with a score of 89.89. Technically it's 'IE on Unknown' that's the dumbest but apparently there's no IQ data for that...

I know, I'm being picky.

Random numbers smarter than median human?

[geekgirlandrea]

Apparently, Perl's PRNG is the 6883rd smartest human on earth with an IQ of 101.36. Why do people pay attention to tests like this again?

Not exactly accurate

[theeddie55]

I didn't bother with the test but looking at the stats, it says the smartest person in the world has an IQ of 142, which in an actual IQ test is just below the minimum requirement for mensa.

Annoying bible book ordering questions

[Anonymous Coward]

Er... nice for the non-Christians and non-Jews in the crowd:

"Genesis is the first book of the Bible. Which of the following is the second book? (a) Genesis (b) Kings (c) Exodus (d) Numbers"

Uh, surely a proper intelligence measuring question would be:

"Which of the following books is not a work of fiction? (a) Genesis (b) Kings (c) Exodus (d) Origin of Species"

Spelling

[SoundGuyNoise]

(It's curretly number 2 behind ScienceBlogs.com.)

You won't make #1 by spelling "currently" wrong.

Unanswerable?

[TheSkyIsPurple]

From the site:
Five teenagers are of various heights. Alex is taller than Dennis, who is shorter than Eunice. Chris is shorter than Bob, but taller than Alex. Who among them is the third tallest? [1. Chris 2. Alex 3. Dennis 4. Eunice]

To rewrite:
Alex > Dennis
Dennis < Eunice (but we don't know if Eunice is taller than Alex or not, etc)
Chris < Bob
Chris > Alex.

Smushing these together (and getting all >'s in the same direction), you get:
Bob > Chris > Alex > Dennis
Eunice > Dennis

These are the combinations I came up with that still fit the teenagers relative heights:
Bob > Chris > Alex > Eunice > Dennis
Bob > Chris > Eunice > Alex > Dennis
Bob > Eunice > Chris > Alex > Dennis
Eunice > Bob > Chris > Alex > Dennis

Who is the third tallest?
Well, Alex, Chris or Eunice. (Answers 1, 2, or 4.)

What did I miss?

[Even if I read "who is shorter than Eunice" to mean Alex < Eunice I still end up with 2 of the answers]

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[mwigmani]

This was the best one I got:*

Question 8 of 10
Which is the odd one out: lead, brass, tin, copper?

1). lead
2). aluminum
3). brass
4). copper

* copied verbatim

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[Denial93]

"In Hinduism who is the Creator? [1. Vishnu 2. Brahma 3. Siva 4. Ganesha]" is just as bad. Depending on which Hindu tradition you look at, either of the first three could be "true". And there are sure to be a few guys who think number 4 is correct... somewhere in the chaotic bunch of sects commonly and grossly misunderstood to be a monolithic religion called "Hinduism".

ScienceBlogs.com

[aplusjimages]

I've never heard of this site, but now that I have I'll never return to /.

The Test is Stupid

[jbrader]

It said I live in Herndon, VA. I live in Pullman, WA. It's pretty far fom here. It also said I'm something like the 3300th smartest person in the world. Since I'm really drunk right now that's pretty sad.

Worst... IQ... Test... Ever...

[Endareth]

That would have to be the worst attempt at an IQ test I've ever seen... A combination of general knowledge and some pattern recognition in only ten questions is so far from qualifying as an IQ test that it's not funny.

bad browser detection

[capoccia]

it marked me as "user of Firefox on WinXP" even though i'm using iceape on debian.

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[ucblockhead]

Or even spell "intelligence"!

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[lilomar]

He must not have been using a browser with a built in spell checker. ;-)

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[MisterBlueSky]

Second, define "smart" or "intellegence" .

Intelligence encompasses, amongst other factors, the ability to solve problems.

Tt determines how well you can solve problems .

Exactly. See above.

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[Spy der Mann]

I wonder how idle.slashdot.org fares....

Re:

[Tuoqui]

He's your husband if you live in Alabama or Utah.