Comments on GGD: I'm a Geek! Fully Tested ;-)

I got Pure Nerd - 70% Nerd, 48% Geek, and 26% Dork...

2009-11-23T14:18:42.535-08:00

I got Pure Nerd - 70% Nerd, 48% Geek, and 26% Dork

(from the site)
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!

...nice

I got 43% Nerd, 78% Geek and 17% Dork :)

2009-11-23T01:31:08.731-08:00

I got 43% Nerd, 78% Geek and 17% Dork :)

I scored as a Modern Cool Nerd (65% Nerd, 52% Geek...

2009-11-22T17:25:50.641-08:00

I scored as a Modern Cool Nerd (65% Nerd, 52% Geek, 39% Dork). The results seem pretty accurate (though I'm eyeing those Firefly T-shirts on EE, and a purchase of those would up my geek factor):

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)!

However, in these types of tests I tend to disagree with the terms "nerd" and "geek." One test might label a person with certain characteristics a nerd; others would call that same person a geek. I haven't yet run across a good, solid definition of either term. Have you?