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Re:Is It Journalism, or Just a Repackaged Press Release? Her... by Samuel_Michon on Tuesday April 23, 2013 @11:08AM (#5595559)
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).
Re:Is It Journalism, or Just a Repackaged Press Release? Her... by ubersync on Tuesday April 23, 2013 @12:47PM (#5596245)
Yea it was an exploit of a cognitive bias (confirmation bias, to be exact [1].)

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