浏览器决定智商？

　　According to the number puzzle website Calcudoku, Chrome users appear to have the highest level of numerical intelligence when it comes to solving the puzzles on its site。

　　来自数独益智网站Calcudoku的消息称，在解决该网站的数独难题上，谷歌chrome浏览器用户相比其他浏览器用户显示出更高水平的数字智商。

　　The company recently published a study based on 2010 and 2011 usage data and parsed it by the browser of choice by its players。

　　该公司根据2010至2011年的数独解题数据进行了研究，并通过浏览器用户的不同分析出其调查结果。

　　According to the data it analyzed, people who use Google’s Chrome browser were the quickest problem solvers of its puzzles compared to those who use Internet Explorer or Firefox:

　　据调查分析的数据指出，相比IE和火狐浏览器用户，Chrome用户能更迅速地解决数独难题。

　　Firefox users came in second place with Internet Explorer in third. There wasn’t enough Safari data to drop them into the mix. Not only were Internet Explorers the slowest number puzzle solvers, they were also more likely to give up on the problems than Chrome or Firefox users。

　　火狐用户排列第二，紧跟其后的是IE用户。由于没有足够的数据，分析图中并没有包括Safari(苹果浏览器)用户。IE用户不仅计算速度最慢，而且也最容易放弃解题。

　　Here’s Calcudoku’s summary on the data it looked at:

　　下面是Calcudoku的数据分析统计：

　　These differences were found to be statistically significant. Based on the fact that Chrome users solve Calcudoku number puzzles the fastest, and that IE users give up on solving them the most, it appears that Chrome users have the highest numerical intelligence, followed by Firefox users, then by Internet Explorer users. Note that it does not follow that using Chrome makes you smarter, for example (“correlation does not imply causation”). Also, we can only speculate about the causes of the differences: perhaps Chrome is the browser of choice for more technically inclined people, who tend to have better number skills. And maybe because IE is the default browser for Windows, people who do not choose a different browser possibly are less technically skilled。

　　统计数据说明了三种用户的解题差距显著。由于Chrome用户解题速度最快，IE用户最慢且最易放弃解题，我们可以推断出Chrome用户具备最高水平的数字智商，火狐用户位居第二，最后是IE用户。但这并不意味着使用Chrome浏览器会让你更聪明(相关性并不能推出最终性结果)，我们只能推测出这种差距的原因：或许Chrome用户大多数为技术性人员，他们拥有更佳的专业技能。而IE浏览器是Windows默认浏览器，其用户由于技术能力稍逊，不太倾向于去另外选择一个差异明显的浏览器。

　　While this is a very small segment of users, we’re not implying that Chrome users are the most brilliant people on the planet. In fact, we’ve been hoaxed on something like this before in the past. However, Google’s CEO Larry Page was pretty excited about the results:

　　这数据只囊括了一小部分用户，我们可以认为Chrome用户是数字达人，但不能就此断言他们就是地球上智商最高的群体。以前我们就在这种类似情况上摔过跟头。但不管怎样，google的CEO拉里·佩奇对这项调查结果表示非常兴奋：

　　All of this probably just means that Google Chrome users are number nerds. Or that everyone who uses Calcudoku’s site works at Google。

　　不过，这一切或许只是说明了谷歌Chrome浏览器的用户很有数字头脑，又说不定那些使用数独网站的人正好在谷歌工作呢！