BBC:

A story which suggested that users of Internet Explorer have a lower IQ than people who chose other browsers appears to have been an elaborate hoax.

A number of media organisations, including the BBC, reported on the research, put out by Canadian firm ApTiquant.It later emerged that the company’s website was only recently set up and staff images were copied from a legitimate business in Paris.

The Loop was one of the media organizations that reported on the research – albeit mainly to have a laugh at our poor, beleaguered Windows-suffering brethren. Like Jim said at the time, IQ tests are stupid. (Admittedly, he said that mainly because he can’t get above about 80, but that’s still a B, right?)