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

      04/04/2010
      Austin Frakt

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

    Nerd_Dork_Geek_Venn_Diagram

    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:

    1. Geek,
    2. Nerd,
    3. Dweeb,
    4. Dork.
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    • Comments (5)

    • by danielle loosbrock on December 10th, 2010 at 10:32

      I would completely agree with your hierarchical rankings… personally, I consider myself a geeky nerd.

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    • by Tim Ratelle on March 21st, 2011 at 02:13

      I’m kind of a dorkish-dweeb.

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    • by someone on July 21st, 2011 at 13:07

      i disagree with this. i think nerd and dweeb should switch.

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      • by someone on July 21st, 2011 at 22:54

        i take back what i said. although i doubt a dweeb has much intelligence

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    • by Alex on April 26th, 2012 at 23:39

      I think nerd should be first.

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