Chrome Users Are Best With Numbers, IE Users Worst

New submitter dr_blurb writes "After reading about last year's hoax report 'Intelligence Quotient (IQ) and Browser Usage' I realized I was in fact already running a real live experiment measuring number skills: a site were you can solve Calcudoku number puzzles. I analyzed two years' worth of data, consisting of over 1 million solved puzzles. This included puzzles solved 'against the clock,' of three different sizes. For each size, Chrome users were the fastest solvers, Firefox users came second, and IE users were the slowest. The number of abandoned puzzles (started but never finished) was also significantly higher for IE users. Analysis shows that the differences are statistically significant: in other words, they did not happen by chance. I put up more details and some graphs, and also wrote a paper about it (PDF)."

Wrong conclusions

[lucm]

> The number of abandoned puzzles (started but never finished) was also significantly higher for IE users

As usual, Microsoft products users show more common sense: they are the ones that figure out quickly that the puzzles are a waste of time!

Chrome.

[Anonymous Coward]

Why are the most intelligent people using a browser that tracks their every move?

IQ correlates with motivation

[Colin Smith]

http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/iq-and-motivation/ [theness.com]

So what the guy is really saying is that Chrome users are obsessive compulsives and I.E. users are normal.

Re:Inadequacy

[Anonymous Coward]

Of all the inappropriate places to post this :)

FWIW, I agree with the sentiment completely....

This is basically just a rehash of a good part of what Phil Greenspun blogged on years ago... who oddly would only be respected here based on personality cult factors alone.

Re:Wrong conclusions

[jamesh]

> The number of abandoned puzzles (started but never finished) was also significantly higher for IE users

As usual, Microsoft products users show more common sense: they are the ones that figure out quickly that the puzzles are a waste of time!

Interesting conclusion. The more likely conclusion is that IE is likely to crash before a puzzle can be completed.