Those with a high IQ have a fondness for Opera

Can we determine the intelligence of an individual based on the Web browser they use? The psychometric assessment company AptiQuant has attempted to prove this hypothesis. It has undertaken a study of more than 100,000 people in order to evaluate the intelligence quotient (IQ) of users based on their preferred system for browsing the Internet.

The results of this ridiculous study, aiming on the face of it just to raise a smile, show that surfers with a higher IQ browsed with "Opera" (average score 126.5). "Camino", the browser designed by Mozilla for Mac OS (124.4), "Safari" (113.5), "Chrome" (111.2) and "Firefox" (108.7).

The various versions of "Internet Explorer" were all used by people with a lower IQ, and at the bottom end of the scale "Internet Explorer 6" (82). Upset by this, fans of Microsoft's browser are threatening to take out a lawsuit against AptiQuant!