Nerd, Dork, Geek, Dweeb: What’s the Difference?

Austin Frakt

April 4, 2010

Great White Snark provides a totally necessary and welcome diagram (h/t Rebecca Hersh).

Since I prefer intelligence overall, think obsession has good, secondary value and find little to be recommended in social ineptitude but will accept it if required to support the first two, here’s the preference hierarchy, as I see it:

Geek,
Nerd,
Dweeb,
Dork.

For Fun
dork, dweeb, geek, nerd

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Austin Frakt

Austin Frakt, PhD, is co-Editor-in-Chief of The Incidental Economist. His day job is Associate Director of the Partnered Evidence-based Policy Resource Center at the Boston VA Healthcare System, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. He is also a Professor with the Department of Health Law, Policy and Management at the Boston University’s School of Public Health, a Principal Research Scientist with the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Health Services Research.

Nerd, Dork, Geek, Dweeb: What’s the Difference?

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