The age old debate of Geek vs. Nerd comes to a head in this infographic. Take the jump to read the great big thing, and then debate the merits of the information.
From: MastersInIt.org
Stephen Schleicher
Stephen Schleicher began his career writing for the Digital Media Online community of sites, including Digital Producer and Creative Mac covering all aspects of the digital content creation industry. He then moved on to consumer technology, and began the Coolness Roundup podcast. A writing fool, Stephen has freelanced for Sci-Fi Channel's Technology Blog, and Gizmodo. Still longing for the good ol' days, Stephen launched Major Spoilers in July 2006, because he is a glutton for punishment. You can follow him on Twitter @MajorSpoilers and tell him your darkest secrets...
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The stats are more interesting than the sweeping characteristics, however, I’m skeptical of comparison based on three sources where one purports “Geek Pride”, the second includes only the search term “geek” and not “nerd”, and the third is- the most reliable of sources- a wiki.
Seems a fairly unbalanced presentation born of unbalanced research.
Hmmm… Obscure references with a hint of pretentiousness… Xians a DayWalker!!! :)
I think that this further proves that the terms ‘Nerd’ and ‘Geek’ are very charged with pejorative biases.
For the record: If you don’t like the movie Pi: Faith in Chaos, you’re worse than Hitler :)
Go team nerd!
The designer’s conflation of geeks and hipsters tells me he’s a hipster who is tired of being called a hipster and is trying to latch onto a relatively more accepted social group.
That was kind of my analysis too.
Nailed it in one guess, sir. ^_^
So, where does “dork” fall in all of this?
on his face, presumably.