Are all those extremely intelligent people we employ in government and who have to use IE6 absent from the survey, thus lowering the average IQ of IE users?

FORBES: Internet Explorer Users Are Stupid

In age there is nothing between them: Mr Hague's bunch average 50 (ie, 14 years older than its leader), Mr Blair's 49 (which was then eight years older than the leader).

ECONOMIST: Shadow cabinet

Also, the turnover for most companies' shares is more than 100% a year ie, shareholders, on average, hold a share for less than one tax year.

ECONOMIST: Corporate finance

One consists of those who are middle class by any standard ie, with an income between the average Brazilian and Italian.

ECONOMIST: Burgeoning bourgeoisie

The others had died in 1969 (ie, at the age of 73, the average life expectancy at birth of women born around Boston in 1896).

ECONOMIST: Ageing

This is the basis of the Balassa-Samuelson theory which holds that average prices will be higher in countries with higher productivity (ie, high GDP per head), because higher wages will push up prices in labour-intensive goods and services.

ECONOMIST: Economics focus: Burger-thy-neighbour policies | The