Sadly, I finally had to give up on my Opera, kept crashing and not working with sites. Chrome was not much better, it was fast but failed a lot. Firefox works great.
Conclusion
The study showed a substantial relationship between an individual’s cognitive ability and their choice of web browser. From the test results, it is a clear indication that individuals on the lower side of the IQ scale tend to resist a change/upgrade of their browsers. This hypothesis can be extended to any software in general, however more research is needed for that, which is a potential future work as an extension to this report.
It is common knowledge, that Internet Explorer Versions to 6.0 to 8.0 are highly incompatible with modern web standards. In order to make websites work properly on these browsers, web developers have to spend a lot of unnecessary effort. This results in an extra financial strain on web projects, and has over the last decade cost millions of man-hours to IT companies. Now that we have a statistical pattern on the continuous usage of incompatible browsers, better steps can be taken to eradicate this nuisance.
This is mostly self serving nonsense that equates computer use with intelligence.
People don't always "choose" their web browser. Unless there is a reason, many people use what comes with the operating system.
As to the so called data conclusions -
Microsoft does not support IE9 on pre-Vista systems, this skews the IE data, because unlike the other browsers, someone would need to replace their XP computer to use it.
Opera is more likely to be used by academics, and ah, hacker types.
The reality is, large companies tend to use very large programs that are slow to change and can require specific browser versions which dictate what can be used. It is not uncommon to be required to use IE7 for example, and not have the software approved for other browsers. Also, Windows XP is still extremely pervasive in industry.
Why not conclude that IE users were taking the test from their place of employment, while other browser users were taking the test from home or school? Oh, because that would not fit their conclusion...
, the only problem I have with it these days is that it seems to keep crashing, don't know if Win7 has anything to do with it
