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By Robert Macmillan
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Entertainment NEW YORK (Reuters) - A team of scientists at MIT have discovered a link
S between desktop operating system choice and several serious social and
mental disorders. The team did a disarranging survey across three
Intestate states of 20, 000 males and 10, 000 female users ages 18 to 25, drawn
from users of three . operating systems; Microsoft
Windows, Apple x and Linux.
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individual ms as well as cognitive, social and behavioural abnormalities. of ; to
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mm The results of the testing showed that the group with the highest mean make things happen
IQ by some margin was the Linux test group, averaging at IIT, levels !
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groups averaged at 103 and 101 respectively, well within expected
ranges.
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Biogs The Linux group showed highly elevated levels of several
disorders including several linked to pedophilia and violent outbursts,
Weather while the Apple group seemed to be the most socially’ adjusted.
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The Apple group were also determined to be more likely to be musicians
or consider themselves artists and had a higher proportion of
homosexuals, at 43%, than either the Windows or Linux groups,, who
TECHNOLOGY were both closer to the expected average of 9%.
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