Pure Nerd
82 % Nerd, 17% Geek, 30% Dork
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For The Record:
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.
You scored better than half in Nerd, earning you the title of: Pure Nerd.
The times, they are a-changing. It used to be that being exceptionally smart led to being unpopular, which would ultimately lead to picking up all of the traits and tendences associated with the "dork." No-longer. Being smart isn't as socially crippling as it once was, and even more so as you get older: eventually being a Pure Nerd will likely be replaced with the following label: Purely Successful.
Congratulations!
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Update: Jake is pure m*ther f*cking evil. John is human.
Pure Nerd
86 % Nerd, 4% Geek, 26% Dork
I'm more nerdy than you!
65 % Nerd, 8% Geek, 17% Dork
91 % Nerd, 21% Geek, 21% Dork
Bitches.
Here's the interesting thing -- despite scoring high absolutely on only "nerd," I was above the 99th percentile for all three traits. Apparently nerdiness is much more prevalent in the population than geekosity or dorkiness.
"Outcast Genius
86 % Nerd, 73% Geek, 69% Dork
Outcast geniuses usually are bright enough to understand what society wants of them, and they just don't care! They are highly intelligent and passionate about the things they know are *truly* important in the world. Typically, this does not include sports, cars or make-up, but it can on occassion (and if it does then they know more than all of their friends combined in that subject).
Outcast geniuses can be very lonely, due to their being outcast from most normal groups and too smart for the room among many other types of dorks and geeks, but they can also be the types to eventually rule the world, ala Bill Gates, the prototypical Outcast Genius. "
And I'm female (and an outlier apparently).
Pure Nerd
91 % Nerd, 47% Geek, 34% Dork
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Agnostic,
I think one is more likely to take a "Nerd, Geek, Dork" test if one is a Nerd to begin with, as potentially Geeks are more interested in other stuff than online dating, and Dorks might not be up to dating at all... ;)
BTW, for any Nerdy types out there, there are a few other great tests on OkCupid, which I would recommend:
What Drives you test:
http://www.okcupid.com/tests/take?testid=17425900749356187144
Brainiac
You're driven 5% by Greed, 65% by Knowledge, 25% by Sex, and 5% by Anger!
The Sex of your brain Test:
http://www.okcupid.com/tests/take?testid=14672792077652733494
Your brain is 12 % feminine and 87 % masculine!
The 4-Variable IQ Test:
http://www.okcupid.com/tests/take?testid=15273633770079357960
Your brain: 80% interpersonal, 60% visual, 80% verbal, and 180% mathematical!
Have fun!!!!
Tri-Lamb Material
82 % Nerd, 21% Geek, 56% Dork
Gotta work on bringing that dork score down :)
If you're so darn nerdy, maybe you could straighten ought the scienceblogs.com web staff, who seem to have greatly diminished the number of comments possible today.
staff (not me) to you: well, you can obviously comment here :)
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Pure Nerd
95 % Nerd, 26% Geek, 17% Dork
Modern, Cool Nerd
78 % Nerd, 56% Geek, 30% Dork
My test tracked 3 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:
You scored higher than 99% on nerdiness
You scored higher than 99% on geekosity You scored higher than 99% on dork points
Recognize, son!
What would you call someone who's obsessed with being cool, but utterly fails? That's what a lot of 'nerds' are to me (and why I don't consider myself to be a nerd, despite being immensely uncool and unfashionable).
jamie,
In the population at large a nerd might appear uncool, but among fellow nerds, there are definately ones who are more cooler - have coolth - than others!
LOL... In fact I'd like to coin a term for a cool Nerd...
- a "Nerdster"
I dunno. "Cool" is just a form of "fashionable", and it is whatever the majority says that it is. So a "nerdster" would simply be someone who doesn't know what is genuinely cool. "Nerdsters" and "hipsters" are both equally conformist, in my opinion. One group simply conforms to a smaller sub-culture than the other. I've never been able to understand the desire to be "cool", and I'm even slightly nauseated when someone calls something that I'm doing or creating "cool". There's nothing "cool" about me! But I would never call myself a "nerd", because I would never think that there's anything cool about myself, nor do I have any need for approval or shared enthusiasm. And I often see this desire to be cool driving the actions of people typically labled as "nerds".
jamie,
Well, there's nothing cool about me either. I don't follow any popular fashions, opinions or views, and am only swayed to adopt a different fashion, opinion or view, after a considerable debate, whether internal or in public, like this blog...
But I do label myself "Nerd", as I have a positive association with the word, and I like to irritate people - especially Neurotypicals - who think Nerds are uncool.
The only fashionable indulgence I have it to sprinkle my conversations with neologisms - especially those from Urban Dictionary...
But hey, you have a different opinion on this, and you're entitled to it... allz kewl, aight ;)
BTW, is can be very useful to label yourself a Nerd, Geek or Dork...
Recently I was in a drinking establishment, and saw this attractive female being hit upon by a "Playah", using all the usual BS, and trying to be way hip about everything.
I sidled up near her, and bided my time for 20-30 minutes, feigning disinterest, but giving her the occassional furtive smile. Then when there was a lull in their conversation she turned to me and said, "So what's your story!". I answered, "Oh, no story here, I'm an Anti-Social Geek..." and paused.
She was really taken aback by that, and proceded to say, "Oh don't say that... you're not that geeky" - as if it was a terrible thing to be. I answered, "Trust me I am!" and paused again. Then she proceeded to say, "You just need to change your hairstyle a bit and maybe wear contacts and you'd be fine... you've probably been hurt in past relationships and that's why you're saying that...". I supressed a laugh, and as deadpan as I could muster, said "Yes, you're right, how could you tell...". Then she took off my glasses and began to toussle my hair to see if she could improve my geeky look.
Fast forward 45 mins later, we are leaving the bar and getting in a cab to her place... to the shock/horror of the playah at the bar...
pconroy: "Well, there's nothing cool about me either. I don't follow any popular fashions, opinions or views, and am only swayed to adopt a different fashion, opinion or view, after a considerable debate, whether internal or in public, like this blog..."
I'm the same way also. The interests of others will normally drive me away.
I guess that I feel that there needs to be a term for all those who need to be cool, but fail. Those individuals are the majority of the people called "nerds". So why not simply call such people "nerds", and not also call them "cool"?
Insisting that nerds are indeed actually "cool" kind of proves part of my point- both hipsters and nerds aspire to the same thing. But since "cool" is a synonym for fashionable, only the majority can really say what is and isn't "cool". The minority, by calling themselves "cool", show that they are envious of the majority's hip status. Or so it seems to me. If "nerd" means someone who tries but fails to be "cool", then the majority rightly dismisses the minority by calling them "nerds".
I've always despised all things hip and cool. That's why I identify with neither the nerds nor the hipsters. Maybe the solution is to come up with a new term for the extreme minority of people like myself.
Even if "Pure Nerd" metamorphasizes into "Purely Successful" for most teenagers as they grew into adults, I don't agree that the "dork" factor diminishes any.
Remember that women are financially independent, and also remember that a construction worker takes home $70,000/yr which is more than enough to erase any financial worries from a romantic relationship.
Now, at $400,000/yr, many would consider me successful for a 26yr old, but that doesn't impress anyone, especially in manhattan, and I'm still a social leper, an insufferable condition brought on by incurable dorkdom.
As financial affluence spreads to all classes, money will quickly be seen the same way GPAs are, as superfluous scores that have no bearing on anything tangible. Seeing numbers increase in a stock portfolio isn't exactly tangible, whereas a girlfriend to go see movies with, is.
Technological and societal sophistication is rapidly erasing the worries of adulthood, that of responsibility (we have flexible work hours now), or diligence (if Y _must_ follow X, automate the process!), or consequences (hooray for the ubiquity of prophylactics). With no uniquely adult-oriented pressures anymore, the transition from adolescence into adulthood is seamless. The end-result is that the same metric that deems success in highschool (popularity) now applies in adulthood. I'm not complaining, this is progress. Popularity _should_ be valued more highly than GPA scores or income levels. Unfortunately, that also means I'm losing the chess game of life.