It's official: IE users are dumb as a bag of hammers

[Eóin]

Seems the original story was faked: BBC - Internet Explorer story was bogus.

Original post below...

Thought this was a hilarious survey result -

"There was a clear indication ... that the subjects using any version of Internet Explorer ranked significantly lower on an average than others"

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From The Register.co.uk - It's official: IE users are dumb as a bag of hammers

[worstje]

I have always known I am special. Go Opera!

[Deozaan]

People who use IE with the Chrome Frame extension score higher than people who use Firefox, Chrome, or Safari?

[f0dder]

People who use IE with the Chrome Frame extension score higher than people who use Firefox, Chrome, or Safari?

That'd probably be people who are forced to use IE at work, but who are smart enough to be able to install such a plugin and subvert company IT policy?

[Renegade]

I have always known I am special. Go Opera!

+1

Yeeha~!

Opera rocks!

[Curt]

I am not sure what to think of the test result, because I am clearly too dumb for Internet Explorer! So I guess I am in the same league as pets or tin cans or something alike?

[Eóin]

Seems the original story was faked: BBC - Internet Explorer story was bogus.

[dashing]

I just take it as a joke.

[daddydave]

I just take it as a joke.

Right, it seems like something the Journal of Irreproducible Results would do. (Sadly there is almost no online content, but the graph is nice.)

[db90h]

While amusing, it is a bit insulting .. also, IE has come a long way lately. Dunno if you've given a chance in recent versions, but they finally got the brilliant idea of disabling all those tollbars by default and letting users be more aware of the add-ons. It isn't as bad as it used to be. I'm with Chrome myself ATM, though am getting a bit tired of it, and considering going back to Firefox. For mobile platforms, nothing seems to beat Opera