Nerd/Geek/Dork - my breakdown

Discover what it means to be a Pure Nerd and how being passionate about learning shapes identity today.

Written byRazib Khan
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Pure Nerd 82 % Nerd, 17% Geek, 30% Dork 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.

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Update: Jake is pure m*ther f*cking evil. John is human.

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