Smart readers

I like to think of my readers as smart people. That is a little self-indulgent, of course: I hope my writing is good enough that clever people appreciate it. But that aside, the letters I get are by a generous majority well-written, interesting, and full of good observations or sharp questions.

Perhaps you read a couple of news stories in the past week or so. One, widely circulated, described research correlating IQ test results with web browser preference, yielding the result that people who used Internet Explorer were, well, stupid. Which is widely known (either stupid or at the mercy of a stupid IT department), but it was nice to see empirical verification. And the next — I hope it was as widely read — revealing that the first story was an excellently crafted hoax.

I will now pull the rabbit out of the hat and tie those two paragraphs together.

42% of my traffic here comes from Windows systems. Only 6% comes from IE. Ergo, my readers are smart people, QED.

:o)

— Frenulum