A Geek I am not. At least, I’m not supposed to be a Geek.
But last night I took Newsweek’s How Geeky Are You? test (via Dr. Helen Smith), and I find the results deeply disturbing.
According to the test, here’s how I scored:
61 to 102: Seriously Nerdy
And here’s how the rest of the world compares to me:
0 to 29: Stuck in the Last Century – 57% 30 to 60: Heading to Geekdom — 38% 61 and up: Seriously Nerdy — 5%
Seriously nerdy? Moi? And in the top 5% of nerddom?
Impossible and unfair! But when I clicked on my score below and “hit ‘submit’ to compare yourself to others” it compared me to the 26589 responses they’ve received so far.
I had thought my Geekdom (or lack thereof) was well settled, because nearly three years ago I took this Geek test and reported the results, which didn’t show I was all that geeky or all that nerdy, but rather well balanced!
Here; I’ll report the results again, for all the world to see.
| You are 24% geek | OK, so maybe you ain’t a geek. You do, at least, show a bit of interest in the world around you. Either that, or you have enough of a sense of humor to pick some of the sillier answers on the test. Regardless, you’re probably a pretty nifty, well-rounded person who gets along fine with people and can chat with just about anyone without fear of looking stupid or foolish or overly concerned with minutiae. God, I hate you. |
Take the Polygeek Quiz at Thudfactor.com
(Link courtesy of Common Sense and Wonder.)
At the time, I said the word “Geek” was bothersome:
I don’t like the word “Geek” — as it is often confused with “Greek.” This causes all kinds of confusion, especially with the young and impressionable…
But forget the definitions! I want to know how I became such a Geek, such a Nerd, whatever it is, in just three years!
I hope blogging doesn’t do this to people.
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5 responses to “It’s all geek to me”
23… I’m stuck in the last century… I blame my dog.
Tests, cont’d
That other Eric, over at Classical Values, followed the same link I did yesterday, got a much higher geek score than my mere 42; alarmed at this, he referred back to the Polygeek Quiz, which had shown him to be a non-geek just three years ago. So, I ju…
that quiz was *not* written by anyone who knew anything about geeks.
cellphone photos?
wtf? That’s not geeky, that’s tech for teens.
A *geek* would have removed the IR filter from the cellphone’s camera lens, duct taped the thing to his dobsonian and used the phone to email *astrophotos* to his friends.
“wtf? That’s not geeky, that’s tech for teens.”
I stopped in the middle of the test for that very reason.
22 – not surprising since I have lived all but 6 of my 57 yrs. in the last century; even though I was a computer programmer for 26 yrs, I wrote mostly in COBOL. Arnold gave me 19% geek. The party questions were hard to answer since I’ve been to very few in the last 10 yrs. due to health and other circumstances. When I was at Duke(’66-’70) I was considered a nerd. Where I eventually graduated (Lenoir-Rhyne ’73) I was by and large admired, both for intellect and for being open about my sexuality – though the latter also stirred just a bit of animosity. The working years (’73 – ’00) I was considered odd but mostly harmless, and usually liked by most of my co-workers and supervisors. I wonder if these tests would correlate negatively strongly with adult age? Too bad they didn’t ask.