Originally Posted By trekkeruss The nerd in me wants to know why the percentages don't add up to 100. That said, I am apparently a Pure Geek.
Originally Posted By avromark I think it's because it means you hit that % in the questions pertaining to that aspect.
Originally Posted By idleHands Precisely. Each variable is measured independently, as it is in Myers-Briggs Type Indicator or Keirsey Temperament Sorter. ENFP and proud of it!! 8^D
Originally Posted By Spooky Ghost Pure Geek 30 % Nerd, 60% 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 Geek, earning you the title of: Pure Geek. It's not that you're a school junkie, like the nerd, and you don't really stand out in a crowd, like the dork, you just have some interests that aren't quite mainstream. Perhaps it's anime, perhaps it's computers, perhaps it's bottlecaps, perhaps it's all of those and more. Your interests take you to events and gatherings that are filled with people you find unusual and beyond-the-pale, but you don't quite consider yourself "of that crowd." Instead, you consider yourself to be fairly normal. Heh heh. Pure Drama Geek at heart
Originally Posted By Elderp Modern, Cool Nerd 100 % Nerd, 52% Geek, 30% 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 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)! Congratulations!
Originally Posted By Elderp Why do my test scores add up to 182%? I Think the person who wrote this was a geek.
Originally Posted By wendebird Joe Normal 39 % Nerd, 30% Geek, 21% 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 less than half in all three, earning you the title of: Joe Normal. This is not to say that you don't have some Nerd, Geek or Dork inside of you--we all do, and you can see the percentages you have right above. This is just to say that none of those qualities stand out so much as to define you. Sure, you enjoy an episode of Star Trek now and again, and yeah, you kinda enjoyed a few classes back in the day. And, once in a while, you stumble while walking down the street even though there was nothing there to cause you to trip. But, for the most part, you look and act fairly typically, and aren't much of an outcast. I'd say there's a fair chance someone asked you to take this test. In any event, fairly normal. I would just like to go on the record as saying I do not watch Star Trek. lol
Originally Posted By wonderingalice Joe Normal 39 % Nerd, 47% Geek, 17% Dork I always thought my strange and often badly-timed sense of humor and outrageous laugh and willingness to play the fool would rank me high in the DORK category. Figure it was my pretty darned thorough knowledge of the Beatles that made me borderline Pure Geek. ;-)
Originally Posted By alexbook Here's a new one: Tri-Lamb Material 82 % Nerd, 43% Geek, 65% Dork You scored better than half in Nerd and Dork, earning you the coveted title of: Tri-Lamb Material. The classic, "80's" nerd, you are what most people think of when they think "nerd," largely due to 80's movies like Revenge of the Nerds and TV shows like Head of the Class. You're exceptionally bright and smart, and partly because of that have never quite fit in with your peers or social groups. Perhaps you've realized, or will someday, that it is possible to retain all of the things that you like about being brilliant and still make peace with the social cliques around you. Or maybe you won't--it's really not necessary. As the brothers of Lambda Lambda Lambda discovered, you're fine just the way you are and can take pride in that. I mean, who wants to be like Ogre, right!? Congratulations! Also, you might want to check out some of my other tests if you're interested in any of the following: Buffy the Vampire Slayer ----- I've actually gotten mostly over my BtVS/Angel obsession, and I haven't really found something new to obsess about yet. Maybe that's why I didn't crack the 50% mark for geekiness. For the record, I've never seen "Revenge of the Nerds" because I thought it would be too depressing.
Originally Posted By Deogges Mom I asked Darkbeer to take the test. he scored as a Pure Nerd 60 % Nerd, 39% Geek, 26% Dork. I really thought he would score higher in the geekiness area.
Originally Posted By PlainoLJoe <<Why do my test scores add up to 182%? I Think the person who wrote this was a geek.>> it is not on the same scale. Each aspect is evaluated on its own merits. Than the percentage..........oh um, er, yeah, how come that is?
Originally Posted By jasmine7 Someone's gotta be the first. ;-) Outcast Genius 73 % Nerd, 69% Geek, 69% 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 three, earning you the title of: Outcast Genius. Outcast geniuses usually are bright enough to understand what society wants of them, and they just don't care! They are highly intelligent and passionate about the things they know are *truly* important in the world. Typically, this does not include sports, cars or make-up, but it can on occassion (and if it does then they know more than all of their friends combined in that subject). Outcast geniuses can be very lonely, due to their being outcast from most normal groups and too smart for the room among many other types of dorks and geeks, but they can also be the types to eventually rule the world, ala Bill Gates, the prototypical Outcast Genius. Congratulations!
