{"id":1860,"date":"2016-05-25T23:26:12","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T21:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sciencetronics.com\/greenphotons\/?p=1860"},"modified":"2025-06-16T18:37:52","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T16:37:52","slug":"nerd-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sciencetronics.com\/greenphotons\/?p=1860","title":{"rendered":"Nerd or not?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today there was a <a href=\"http:\/\/coord.info\/GC6GM5D\" target=\"_blank\">geocaching event celebrating Nerd Day<\/a>. I must admit that I wasn&#8217;t aware of the significance of today&#8217;s date, but I also knew that I can probably be considered being a nerd.<\/p>\n<p>In the early days of the internet, while still writing my master&#8217;s thesis in Kiel, I already scored high on the nerd test by J. The original site is no longer available, but the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.armory.com\/tests\/nerd500.html\" target=\"_blank\">test itself has survived<\/a> &#8211; even though many questions now seem antiquated. In the past I scored just below 40%, today I reached 57%.<\/p>\n<p>And then there more modern versions of these tests, like this one:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nerdtests.com\/ft_nq.php\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nerdtests.com\/images\/ft\/nq\/7532d17e56.gif\" alt=\"I am nerdier than 92% of all people. Are you a nerd? Click here to take the Nerd Test, get nerdy images and jokes, and talk on the nerd forum!\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>or this one <a href=\"http:\/\/www.innergeek.us\/geek-test.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The geek test v.3.14 <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>31.2% Total Geek<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>+ Geekish Tendencies&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..\u226509%<br \/>\n++ Geek&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;\u226515%<br \/>\n+++ Total Geek&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..\u226525%<br \/>\n++++ Major Geek&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.\u226535%<br \/>\n+++++ Super Geek&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;\u226545%<br \/>\n++++++ Extreme Geek&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;\u226555%<br \/>\n+++++++ Geek God&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;\u226565%<br \/>\n+++++++! 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