Submitted by Jon Reed on
Whenever popular products or brands are in competition people inevitably try to draw correlations and make assumptions about the consumers of one product versus those of the other. The subject of comparison can range from economic status to obesity to age or gender, and just about anything else you can think of. Sometimes the conclusions are drawn from serious academic study, but most are drawn from simple, biased observation. A recent not-so-scientific test carried out by UK bookmaker Ladbrokes concluded that iPhone users are more intelligent than Google, Samsung, HTC, Nokia and Blackberry owners.
Ladbrokes chose 1,000 participants from a list of smartphone owners that had downloaded their mobile app. The participants' mental acuity was then challenged by seven brainteasers designed to test pattern recognition and problem solving ability. Each question had to be answered (and they were multiple choice) before
moving on to the next. The "grading" was simply based on how long it took each participant to complete the test.
iPhone users finished in first place, taking an average of 94 seconds to complete the test. Google Nexus users took second with an average of 99 seconds, followed by Samsung, HTC and Nokia, scoring 103, 105 and 109 seconds respectively. Poor Blackberry... its users finished last, averaging a whopping 118 seconds. The top individual score was 47 seconds, recorded by a Samsung user.
You can test your skills at A Test of Wits. (Hint: you can score ~20 seconds simply by clicking right down the line until you get the correct one, but that'd be cheating and it probably wasn't allowed in the official test, considering the top score.)