Linux Users Have Higher IQs

Computer operating system mental health link Thu Nov 20, 2005 4:15pm EST By Robert MacMillan NEW YORK (Reuters) - A team of scientists at MIT have discovered a link between desktop operating system choice and several serious social and mental disorders. The team did a wide-ranging survey across three states of 20,000 males and 10,000 female users ages 18 to 25, drawn from users of three popular desktop operating systems: Microsoft Windows, Apple OS X and Linux. The volunteers were divided into groups according to their operating system and subjected to a series of tests meant to determine their individual IQs as well as cognitive, social and behavioural abnormalities. The results of the testing showed that the group with the highest mean IQ by some margin was the Linux test group, averaging at 117, levels expected of good undergraduate students. The Windows and Apple groups averaged at 103 and 101 respectively, well within expected ranges. The Linux group showed highly elevated levels of several socio-cognitive disorders including several linked to pedophilia and violent outbursts, while the Apple group seemed to be the most socially adjusted. The Apple group were also determined to be more likely to be musicians or consider themselves artists and had a higher proportion of homosexuals, at 43%, than either the Windows or Linux groups, who were both closer to the expected average of 9%.

A fake Reuters-style news article claims that computer operating system choice is linked to IQ, mental disorders, sexuality, violence, and social adjustment. Linux users supposedly have the highest IQ but alarming social and cognitive disorders, Apple users are portrayed as artistic and socially adjusted, and Windows users are average. The joke is an absurd, provocative stereotype war between Linux, Apple, and Windows users presented in the deadpan format of a serious newspaper report. EN: A fake Reuters-style news article claims that computer operating system choice is linked to IQ, mental disorders, sexuality, violence, and social adjustment. Linux users supposedly have the highest IQ but alarming social and cognitive disorders, Apple users are portrayed as artistic and socially adjusted, and Windows users are average. The joke is an absurd, provocative stereotype war between Linux, Apple, and Windows users presented in the deadpan format of a serious newspaper report.

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