[DM-MUG] Interesting note

John Eller dmmug@dmmug.org
Mon, 4 Apr 2005 16:56:34 -0500


this was quite evident when the new tech director arrived
in the des moines schools and changed them from a
perfectly good two-platform network to windows only.

On Apr 4, 2005, at 2:09 PM, pegleg wrote:

> I enjoyed this so thought I would share it.
>
>> This is a quote from a new digital newsletter from Roxio, recently
>> bought out by Sonic Solutions:
>>
>> As a Mac user, you already know you "think different" from the Windoze
>> majority. And you probably think you're pretty smart for doing so. But
>> is there any actual proof that Mac owners are more intelligent? Paul
>> Murphy did a verbal analysis of online discussion group postings for
>> MacNewsWorld, and came up with some interesting statistics. Using
>> standard "readability" gradings for text, you can measure how
>> sophisticated it is in terms of vocabulary, grammar, usage and the
>> like. Comparing grades for Mac, PC and Linux users, the Mac clique
>> scored significantly higher on all counts, proving definitively that
>> Mac users are smarter. After all, it's smart to use easy software!
>
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