Embarrassingly average...

[jon_chaisson]

Modern, Cool Nerd 56 % Nerd, 65% Geek, 34% 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 and Geek, earning you the title of: Modern, Cool Nerd. 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 eeked out for themselves a modicrum 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)! Congratulations!

My test tracked 3 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 48% on nerdiness You scored higher than 81% on geekosity You scored higher than 54% on dork points

Link: The Nerd? Geek? or Dork? Test written by donathos on OkCupid Free Online Dating

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How could I resist a Nerd test?

[urnesha.livejournal.com]

Pure Nerd 78 % Nerd, 21% Geek, 13% 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 all 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!

My test tracked 3 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 87% on nerdiness You scored higher than 21% on geekosity You scored higher than 8% on dork points

Link: The Nerd? Geek? or Dork? Test written by donathos on OkCupid Free Online Dating

[dasmarzipan.livejournal.com]

Er, my understanding that the word nerd came from the word "ne'erdowell", which is a horrible name, but we were never a truly understanding people in older times about appreciating differences. Still aren't. (Actually, that's something I made up, but it seems to fit...)

Geek is the definition of the above: excited about academia and about one particular subject.

Dork is a whale's...er, a male whale's...specific portion of their anatomy. Or now that I look it up, it doesn't need to just be a whale.

So, here's to GEEKS!!!!!