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IQLeague: Mac Safari Users Smartest on the Web

IQLeague: Mac Safari Users Smartest on the Web

by , 12:45 PM EDT, May 27th, 2008

Who are the smartest surfers on the Web? Safari users on the Mac, according to IQLeague. The group is conducting an online intelligence test of sorts, and so far the results show that Intel-based Mac users with Safari are outperforming everyone else with a score of 103.36.

The rankings can change as more people take the online test, and as of early Monday afternoon, Firefox users on Windows 95 were showing a score of 103.13. Earlier in the day, Windows 95 users weren't appearing in any of the top 20 slots.

Previously, Firefox users on PowerPC-based Macs were holding the top slot with a ranking of 104.35, followed by Mozilla on Unix at 103.95. The numbers are volatile considering that more people are trying out the test all the time, and based on the current figures it looks like the Windows 95 users finally woke up from their nap.

Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows NT and Windows XP Firefox users came in at 14th place and worked down from there to 19th place.

While the numbers are changing as more people take the test, one trend seems to be holding true for now: Mac users on the Web are smarter than their Windows counterparts.

The IQLeague intelligence test is available at the IQLeague Web site.

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Close Name:vasic Posts: 279 Joined: 09 Aug 2005
Subject: weekend / workday?

Would it be normal to expect Mac to be knocked down from the top now that many of those Mac users are in their offices and using Windows PCs? Monday was a holiday in the US, where most English-speaking-only web audience tends to reside. Now that they are back at work, many folks with Macs at home might go do this on their Windows PCs, skewing thereby the total score.

This test has very questionable validity.

Close Name:Guest
Subject: The test is lame.

They get a number of questions simply wrong. For example, the first animals in space were fruit flies (see Wikipedia), and they don't even offer that as a choice to answer the question.

Close Name:Guest
Subject: With apologies to Rush Limbaugh

I heard once that there are more liberal minded people that conservatives using Macs, so this should not come as much surprise.

: )

Close Name:Guest
Subject: Agreed

I agree that it's biased. I don't know if the questions were randomized, but the trivia questions for me asked about Greek gods, Columbus's ships, and H. G. Wells. I'd say that's a bit culturally biased.

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