Hacker News Reader

Reminds me of the fake web browser and IQ study (which claimed IE users are dumb). Basically every media house just copy pasted the press release.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_Quotient_(IQ)_and_...

View on HN

Since then, has there been a real study into the relation between intelligence and browser choice? I suspect the hoax report largely was picked up by IT sites and mainstream press because the conclusion sounded plausible to them (IE users = not smrt).

Yea it was an exploit of a cognitive bias (confirmation bias, to be exact [1].)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias

Reply on news.ycombinator.com