Reply #36: Well, averages are just that. Many of us older folks use [View All]

[tblue37]

IE not because our IQs are lower, but because we are most familiar with IE, and constant changes can be disorienting.

I don't want to brag, and if you had not raised this issue I would never mention it, but although I use IE, my IQ is significantly higher than the average reported for Opera users (I won't say how high; you probably would not believe it anyway). I have Opera and Firefox on my computer--put there by a young computer whiz friend--but I never use them.

I have often thought that at least one reason we older folks don't like constantly changing our tools is that we have, over the years, accumulated so much "stuff"--not just experience, information, and ideas, but also interconnections, responsibilities, skills, and tasks--that we don't want to spend even a few minutes of our rapidly diminishing lifespans to learn to use new tools when our old ones are still functioning well enough for us to do what we need or want to do.

That's the thing, you know. New tools often require time to master, and many of us don't feel we can spare even a little bit of time unless we really are not getting what we need from our older tools.