Neither geek nor dork (BatesLine)

Neither geek nor dork

How I scored on the Nerd, Geek, or Dork test:

Pure Nerd

69 % Nerd, 13% Geek, 26% 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.

Congratulations!

Link: The Nerd? Geek? or Dork? Test written by donathos on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test

(Via Charles' MySpace blog.)

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Jeff Shaw

Pure Nerd

60 % Nerd, 8% Geek, 43% Dork

I've got you beat on the Dork, but you're fairly better on the Geek. DANG!

A little riddle:
Where do Geeks and Nerds go when they die?

Answer typed backwards:
nooM eht fo ediS korD ehT

Posted by Jeff Shaw | January 4, 2007 1:35 PM

Posted on January 4, 2007 13:35

Jeff Shaw

I misspelled kroD.

Did I just point out a misspelling?

Posted by Jeff Shaw | January 4, 2007 1:38 PM

Posted on January 4, 2007 13:38

Greg Bledsoe:

I was 69 % Nerd, 26% Geek, 34% Dork.

Looks like great minds think alike!!!

Posted by Greg Bledsoe | January 5, 2007 2:14 PM

Posted on January 5, 2007 14:14

Robert:

Don't know what this makes me , but what's up with the percentages (108%,111%) ?

Posted by Robert | January 5, 2007 4:29 PM

Posted on January 5, 2007 16:29

MichaelBates

Each of the three numbers is an independent variable on a scale of 0 to 100%. You're obviously not nerdy enough, Robert, or you would have realized that.

Really, they should have made the scores on a scale of 0 to 800. You know, like the SATs. Or maybe 0 to 255, like RGB color values.

Posted by MichaelBates | January 5, 2007 5:13 PM

Posted on January 5, 2007 17:13

Robert:

Michael,
My numbers are 69 nerd, 13 geek and 17 dork.
Age/gender 75N 11G 19D
It would appear relative to your numbers that I'm not enough of a dork. To me it's a definition thing , but I'm still mad that snuck sneaked into the dictionary.
Robert

Posted by Robert | January 5, 2007 7:41 PM

Posted on January 5, 2007 19:41

Kevin Carson:

I'm mostly geek and dork, and not so much nerd. Stands to reason: I've always been really into learning about stuff that's important to me, but resisted putting any effort into anything just because teachers or authority figures said it was important. It's a good thing they weren't so heavily into psycopharmacology back in my school days, or I'd have been Ritalined into submission for telling so many teachers they were full of shit.

Posted by Kevin Carson | January 14, 2007 7:30 PM

Posted on January 14, 2007 19:30