(Via Slashdot) Apparently, some geeks don’t like to be called ‘geeks’:
More Americans are interested in science news and information than is commonly thought, a new study suggests. But not everyone wears the intrigue on their sleeves.
In fact some people are downright silent about their scientific interests, perhaps not wanting to be perceived as nerds.[...]
The research aimed to get beyond the recognized geek population and gauge interest in science among the roughly 150 million Americans age 18-54. About 40 percent of them, or 60 million people, were found to be “intellectually curious” about politics, the arts and science, all spending significant time with newspapers, related television channels and online media.
I’ll go ahead and say (for any of you who haven’t already figured it out) that I’m a geek. I’m going to decline to call myself “intellectually curious” if only because it seems like a waste of energy to utilize polysyllabic terminology when monosyllabic phrases will suffice.