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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 4642024" data-attributes="member: 54707">That's an excellent point S'mon. I didn't break things down by sex because I hate saying he/she over and over again, and because, of course, I was just generalizing. However I think examining sex would change the details and parameters by which things like this would be measured and assessed (no pun intended).A girl might be Nerd-mind in comparison to some men, and Geek-mind in comparison to other females. Or vice versa. I reckon who you're being compared to says a lot about how that comparison is rendered.I also think there is a generational aspect to this. I think there are far more Nerd minds of about my age, and far more Geek minds among younger people. I think that is because Nerd can generally be equated roughly, with what we used to call Brainiacs, or sometimes thought of as "scientifically smart."But Geeks I think more of as being Technicians (in the big sense of the term) and technical experts. You can't really have a "Geek population" without your society having a sufficiently advanced technical science that is practical and functional. That's why Geeks are such a relatively new phenomenon. You've had scientifically oriented people and "Nerds" (even if they weren't called that) in the general population (though maybe not in heavy numbers) for a pretty long time. But you can't have Geeks without a sophisticated, highly developed technological base in society. Geeks often run and maintain not science, per se, but the products and fruits of scientific innovation. And you can't have "gaming Geeks" without them having first become used to the idea of "the technical analysis of everything," including gaming and entertainment. That is to say without becoming used to the idea that technically is the way you naturally should, or must, analyze everything you analyze. Geeks then are a sort of specialized sub-class of general Nerdom, or I guess if you put it in gaming terms, a prestige class of Nerdom.Anyways, that was a good observation.And a clever one.</blockquote>

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