Modern, Cool Nerd
73 % Nerd, 52% Geek, 39% Dork
According to the test:
A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia.
A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one.
A Dork is someone who has difficulty with common social expectations/interactions.
Nerds didn't use to be cool, but in the 90's that all changed. It used to be that, if you were a computer expert, you had to wear plaid or a pocket protector or suspenders or something that announced to the world that you couldn't quite fit in. Not anymore. Now, the intelligent and geeky have eked out for themselves a modicum of respect at the very least, and "geek is chic." The Modern, Cool Nerd is intelligent, knowledgable and always the person to call in a crisis(needing computer advice/an arcane bit of trivia knowledge). They are the one you want as your lifeline in Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (or the one up there, winning the million bucks)!
The test tracked 3 variables which compare me to other people my age and gender:
I scored higher than 99% on nerdiness
I scored higher than 99% on geekosity
I scored higher than 99% on dork points
Link: The Nerd? Geek? or Dork? Test written by donathos
Now I know that some of you who read this are similar in age, gender and some or all of nerdosity, geekiness and dork points - you need to take this test to help make their data set more representative.
4 comments:
Well, I scored Pure Nerd
78 % Nerd, 34% Geek, 17% Dork
and am still in the 99th percentile for each, so that's kinda scary.
-A.
I'm beginning to think the comparison bit is broken.
I did it, and I was sad that I wasn't as high as you on the comparison... I was 89% higher on the Nerd than others, 36% on Geek and 13% on Dork. I like the idea that the comparison bit is broken. :-)
I think I should have been much higher on geek. They didn't ask questions that were good at tapping my geekiness. Geekiness is more than just like certain genres/TV shows.
Definitely, they need more buffy questions!
(Fairly unsurprisingly) I scored:
Pure Nerd
78 % Nerd, 43% Geek, 43% Dork
And I'm also in the 99th percentile for them all, so I tend to agree about the broken comparison:)
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