Submitted by David Strom:
“Internet Explorer Users Have Lower IQs” Study Is a Hoax: Here Are Some of the Red Flags
by Tim Carmody
WIRED
August 3, 2011
If a headline sounds too good to be true, think twice.
A widely circulated research study claiming to show that Internet Explorer users have lower IQs has been outed as a hoax.
An outlet calling itself the “AptiQuant Psychometric Consulting Company” threw up a phony website a month ago, copied staff photos from a French site, and issued a press release [malware-free PDF] to reporters. Major newspapers, web sites and television stations from England to the US ran the story.
If they looked at the purported data at all, they didn”™t look at it very closely. This may have been a clever hoax, but it wasn”™t a careful one. Continue reading “Merchant Website Confesses to IE Hoax”