Geek Vs. Nerd: Which Are You? | Earth Science
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- čas přidán 2. 09. 2013
- Many people use geeks and nerds interchangably, but there are actually differences in geeks vs. nerds. BBC Earth Science's NumberHub explains the numbers that separate these two groups.
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What a gorgeous voice... *melt*
It true. Best voice on CZcams.
And the accent. Don't forget the brit accent.
😂 Really that what you are impressed by not the amazing content of the speech?
@@cedricburkhart3738 I honestly could barely listen to what she said. Her tonality and the cute way she pronounces words that end on an "s" sound are too mesmerizing ...
🤣 "I love her voice" Was literally the first thing I said seeing the video😂😂😂
A beer-nerd knows how to make beer.
A beer-geek knows where they serve it and how it taste.
+Magnus Johansson On that basis I'm a beer-geek and a theoretical beer-nerd.
Oh neat I'm both
A beer nerd will have you taste their brew, and it is not that bad (or even good).
A geek will have an app to remember what beers they have drinken.
Both don’t fit at all.
Well then Im a definitely a beer geek ! I have no idea how to make it but I always want to try every kind of a certain beer brand . I usually buy a mix of different beers cause I want to try all of them.
Nerds are knowledgeable of academia
Geeks are educated on pop culture
PixelT4N3 No not exactly. You can be a geek at an academic subject and not be nerdy about it.
Very true and geeks are probably not quite as intelligent as nerds
Very true and geeks are probably not quite as intelligent as nerds
The popular definition of nerd appears to be one who's obsessed with pop culture, like fiction. I wouldn't call myself a nerd, as it seems to mean someone who watches a lot of TV, which is a weird thing to brag about. All these people who self identify as nerds appear to be obsessed with comic book movies. I like learning and watch sci-fi, but calling myself a nerd just seems boastful.
@@d6853 Yes, and people who are geeky at something but not nerdy are called "amateurs".
i just think the difference is when you ask both of them to finish the sentence: "may the force be..." a geek answers "with you" but a nerd answers " mass times acceleration"
Literally cancer
Today winner of the internernet goes to...
+Sean S I know right? EleGiggle
+Toddy15 What about those of us who would split the difference and say "may the mass times acceleration be with you?"
At our uni, we actually have a little sheet of paper hanging in the common room saying May the mv be with you!" with an arrow above the mv.
Her voice is so relaxing and clear. i can listen to it explaining anything all day.
I'm still wondering... Isn't intelligent something to be proud of? Why would they hate you for being a nerd/geek?
Because it apparently has become the norm to be dumb
+jemoeder2021 Thank you.
+jemoeder2021 "deffinantly"
Why would they hate you for being a geek/nerd? Because geeks/nerds are thought to be very unsocial. People generally hate unsocial others.
I think nerd needs more time to focus on his subject thus might be perceived as more unsocial. Geek, judging by Hanna's explanation, might be considered as a balance between intelligence/knowledge and socializing.
Bullying I reckon. A smart person can win an argument with facts, a sturdy person can win an argument with fists. We jokers and class clowns are in the middle, glad that we aren't assholes and glad that the assholes have other targets. Plus we usually get the girl, which makes up for not being muscly or brainy.
shes so beautiful, and her voice is amazing too xD
It was audio engineered to your liking.
Simp
"An IQ greater than your body weight"
Chill, Fry.
in kg or lbs?
kN
Gismos & Gadgets lbs
100/120 is the median now and depends on which iq test, plus the test just shows how good you are at taking tests, not much else :/
If we're talking pounds, I'm 88...
I'd be quite concerned if I didn't have an IQ greater than my body weight xD
@@polymindgames Nope; I'm under 5ft lmao
in sweden its a compliment tp be called nerd and you do not want to be called geek! in sweden a geek is a wannabe nerd!
that's what i thought it mean too. no wonder i don't fit in to American society well :/ i'm a nerd and quite proud of that.
you should!
search on geek vs nerd rap battle
@@diesect33 there's nothing wrong with being either or.. just be yourself
I think that's the essence of it in English too. A nerd actually has scientific or technical talent and isn't eager to show it off, but can't totally avoid it. A geek wants the prestige of a nerd, but gets wrapped up in popular software and computer games instead of real science or deep understanding of technology.
The first time I heard "nerd" used as a compliment was at a supercomputer conference.
The Fan vs Practitioner has always been my definition of their difference.
I see a nerd as someone who spend so much time on something (be it sports, math, games etc.), that it takes up a significant portion of their life. While a geek could be profoundly interested in the subject in question, it wouldn't significantly disrupt or influence his or her daily life.
Which means I'm quite nerdy about a few things, but geeky about a whole range of subjects.
Geeks are always more passionate about their science fiction hobbies whereas Nerds are more academic oriented. That's how I always differentiate them :)
Yup I'm a geek then. What about you?
knurd is so very much a better spelling than nerd
Yes. It means a person as far as possible away from being a party animal. That is me!
I could listen to Hannah's voice all day.
Ditto.
The geek doesn’t mind swimming the surface of the ocean while the nerd is already in a submarine discovering the abyss
I'd always thought of myself as a bit of a nerd but now after seeing this I see I'm a bit of a geek too. While I love working with computers and games I do like to dress up and go to conventions. And I'm proud of it. I really couldn't care less what other people think.
I consider nerd as a compliment and geek as an insult, And I also have always considered myself a very big nerd.
I could listen to Hannah for hours. Simply wonderful voice.
Hannah is so beautiful I can't concentrate on what she's actually saying
in short, geeks are pretty much marketing-fools and only know superficial stuff about their "items" (though more than joe average), nerds actually do have conclusive knowledge and the functional general intelligence (intrinsic skills/abilities etc), though they might appear a bit weird
Correction: Geeks are mundane at start then becomes an encyclopedia (knowledgeable). Nerds are great at multiple things, and not focused on a single subject (either literally or an object)
+Forgetful Bloke there are plenty of that most people call nerds, that only have 1-2 special interests (actually it's a diagnosis critera for certain kinds of neuropsychological resp. development-psychological groups), thus I'd rather would leave it out of the defenition how many topics they have conclusive knowledge on...
@@countdookie6987 an encyclopedia are useless b.s. involving fantasy? I sure wish she hadn't said Linux was categorized under geeky , though.
"... to be a nerd you need an IQ bigger than your body weight... "
Well, In the metric system, that's not too difficult to achieve considering that the average weight of a human is 70-odd kg.
Lets say regular american body weight :)
einalwaysthere
I know she meant in pounds XP
I was just making a joke/being a smart arse, since the majority of the world uses the metric system rather than Imperial units and she didn't specify which unit you'd measure their weight in.
Heck, we could even measure weight in solar masses - which would be rather silly. Which means I'd weigh around 0.0000000000000000000000000004 solar masses, a pretty easy number to beat in IQ.
When I was in grade 9 back in the 70's there was a kid with a $600.00 calculator. He always did his homework and always got good marks but he was socially obtuse. It was the first time I heard the word "geek" and I thought it was the perfect word to describe this guy. I still think of it as one of the perfect words.
Autistic may be a better word to describe him.
I transcend all definitions... but my IQ-to-Weight ratio is righteously proportioned with proper diet. GNERD.
Geek
I would love to hear Hannah talk about random facts for two hours, James May style. Or both of them together
Does the fact that I already knew all of this make me a nerd?
this IQ requirement was that in imperial or metric?
Grams-force.
oh, in KG, then I am ok. if in pounds, I am screwed.
I've been arguing the stark differences of geeks & nerds (and subsequent superiority of falling under the latter) for 20 years! I'm so happy to see that there is a bigger need than me who actually catalogued data showing evidence of the separation. My own summary of the two has been that nerds love to collect knowledge as to where geeks love to collect Star Wars figurines.
i always thought nerds were more into science, while geeks were more into "cultures". but that's just my opinion. flawed probably but yeah....
Thanks for reminding us! They should be there now!
I know this is old, but I dare say Linux is far nerdier than it is geeky.
Pseudo geeks think they know Linux.
Agreed btw
Totally.
Absolutely; setting up git servers on your rasp pi alongside Searx and running a full CLI gentoo build is far more nerdy. But you do get these geeks who think they know Linux from using Ubuntu
why is this so quiet and serious? it's like it's late at night and she's trying not to wake everyone up. it's almost like an asmr video.
+Charles Crumb this video has been posted on the asmr reddit
+Charles Crumb Just sounds sultry and seductive to me.
For me, it makes the video more enjoyable. She's an attractive British girl with a seductive voice and there's no music to distract me from anything she's saying.
+sameasabove yeah but more like a cougar. rather unfettered and up to anything :D
I also thought of asmr, she is very soothing
My takeaway from the video is: a geek wants to have fun and put some spice in theirs life and a nerd wants to develope skills and knowledge to enrich their life. An example I thought of: a geek would dress up as a dwarf for Halloween but a nerd would study elvish.
As a middle of the road nerdy geek (If you can say so) I say this video is a very good take on this "debate".
And my god you have a lovely voice Hannah! Please make an audiobook or something similar someday? I would listen to that to my hearts content. :)
I used to be a Nerd, now I have become a Geek and Hannah talking about Maths has made me want to become a Nerd again! :)
Geek= comics and superheroes
Nerds= computers school and math
exactly, that is one of the problems with the comedy series "big bang theory" they misrepresent nerds with geeks.
That is very true
But there is a middle, for example, I consider myself a nerd and a good example of that is that I know that The flash (Barry Allen) can process things at the rate of more than an attosecond so in a way he can process around 100 billion years in a single seconds. Just like in Big Bang theory they are engaged in comic books, Tabletop gaming etc. And Science, Math etc. There is a middle
Rans Animation also very true, I'd consider myself a geek over a nerd tho
+Rans “Comic's Center” Animation They are nerds when it comes to their specific fields of study, but geeks when it comes to stuff they like, but they are not experts of.
Her voice...quite soothing...makes paying attention and learning much easier.
I have a lot to say on this subject, but I think the explanation in this video, while intriguing and informative, only scratches the surface. This video portrays "geekdom "and "nerdom" as "social facts" (an idea that originated with Emile Durkheim). That is to say, here we are treating these two categories of people as objectively existing groups with their own solidarity rather than as treating these terms as labels for relevant reference groups used by those inside a different, non nerd/geek in-group. This distinction- whether "geeks" and "nerds" are true subcultures with solidarity- is worthy of debate. It may be that there is a recent move toward creating solidarity among people who embrace these labels- whereas originally these terms may have been reserved *only* as words used to categorize negative out-groups, used by people who did NOT consider themselves to be either "nerds" or "geeks."
Sociology masters grad giving her take on the subject here.
(does this mean I fit either label?)
Well.. Some of the implications of that graph suggest it's quite possible to be both.
Like, my interest in Star Trek and scifi and anime and stuff is kind of geeky, but spending a lot of time digging into the algorithms that make computer games function is a lot more nerdy...
>_>
Ah well. I can live with that either way, so... nyeh. XD
I love her accent!
You have a great voice , I know million ppl must have said it , but I can't stop from repeating it ....
16 Giga bytes of RAM - I was baffled. The I realized that this was uploaded in 2013
I'm definitely both...I'm passionate about my subjects biochemistry and history, but I'm also one to go to comiccons and to be involved in multiple fandoms
What a sexy voice. You should be making bank on voice work.
_"Geeks and nerds unite by subscribing to head squeeze"_
That was so smooth I even subscribed.
Amen to that!
Nerd requires higher IQ than bodyweight? i weigh 20 stone, smashing this shit call me super genius
maybe in pounds
Do tell more about dweebs and dorks... heck talk about anything :x Could you maybe do some audio books? You got the perfect voice for that :o
she did make an audio book called The mathematics of Love
And now I finally have a reason to use a trial audible code :D Thanks Bruno Bandeira :D
haha, I think I will too
The most important clarification of terminology since Bourbaki distingished the circle from the disk and the the sphere from the ball.
I've always thought the opposite from what you've explained. I guess I have developed a different understanding of these two words.
I seem to be somewhere between those two, I must be a "neek" or a "gerd"!
Or neither.
Same
I'm not a nerd or a geek. Today, my kind of people identify as "trash" or "fangirl/boy." Geeks and nerds are a thing if the past. We trash have the power today
kpop 😏
Never noticed how "eye-pleasing" her face was. *most respectable way of saying this that i thought of
Your voice is so soothing... It puts me to sleep and keeps me interested at the same time
I think nerd is a compliment but geek is downright insulting
Same
usually everyone's IQ is higher than their body weight
+Chaitanya Nivsarkar Rhar depends on the system and measures used. Use stones and all idiots are geniuses, grams however, and we are all idiots, even MENSA members.
+Chaitanya Nivsarkar Your intelligence quotient (IQ) is your mental age divided by your chronological age, multiplied by 100. Since the average IQ is by definition 100, I would venture to say that any adult whose weight is less than his or her IQ is almost certainly deathly ill. I can assure you that, however high you might believe my IQ to be, I haven't weighed that little in about thirty years.
+Chaitanya Nivsarkar body weight in killograms the SI unit
them: bigger IQ than your body weight
me: laughs in metric system
I LOVE THESE VIDEOS!! KEEP IT UP HANNAH!
What if I like comics and math? I guess I'm a *Neek*
or a Gnerk
Comics full within geek and nerd just like Star Wars. Because you like maths youd fall more onto the nerd side
I want to lay down in a bed made of her voice. Wow!
I borrowed that line from the new TED2 movie, btw. Go see it, looks very funny.
So I thought I was more nerd, but now I think I'm right in the middle.
"Glasses. Star Wars. Computer." ...Killed me.
False, I am a nerd and my IQ is NOT 425.
That was exactly the first thing that came to my mind
Gates = Nerd
Jobs = Geek
+ritwik sinha 24
kilésengati jobs is actually spent the time to do his work and only cared that people to recieve a good product... so he is actually a nerd...
kilésengati his mindless followers however... definite geeks 😂😉
steve jobs is a geek man. the nerd behind apple is steve wozniak
For games it is clearly the speed. The textures load rate is defined by how much ram your graphics card is dedicated to and how fast those rams are. While more ram are for rendering and multitasking like MurderousCat said. But otherwise you are perfectly right.
If I had money, I'd pay money to watch her do calculus.
I think anyone who cares about the difference between a "geek" and a "nerd" is probably both. And a shallow person who puts too much stock in labels.
nope
I am a nerd and a geek who is socially awkward, watches Gravity Falls and Steven Universe, loves most Marvel movies and listens to Undertale music every day...
I also like math
Your voice it's so soothing. I love it.
I could listen to her talking for ever.
I saw dalek
I clicked
After watching, I don't remember anything out of this vid other than why is the chick.... so hot?
It's the soft, clear voice with the British accent that gets me.
Xyzzyx I think it's the way she moves her body about while she talks. She doesn't move this way in her more "nerdy" videos like on numberphile.
Xyzzyx The hair and the voice man its a perfect combo
+Xyzzyx She can probably make shakespear sound sexy :P
+Gigabyte Spyder The correct term is not "British accent", but "proper way of speaking English".
i could listen to her reading the phonebook forever
Head squeeze you need to get this woman on more. She's got a voice for radio a face for the Oscars and she probably rocks at countdown.
No self respecting geek would identify with Apple computer, unless you were using a mac 128k as a terminal client. I am a huge computer geek my self and I know of no other geeks who use modern apple computers for anything. They are usually associated with computer illiterates.
yeah nerds in other definitions want hardcore hardware.I need to take a sea of salt with this video.
Giggity Goebbels this approaches the terms in a generalization of the classifications as that is the only real way to address it. Everyone is different and many people are both geeks and nerds so certainly isn't meant to apply to everyone. The hardcore hardware is not accurate to a lot of people as well. I want great hardware but I don't care if it is the latest and greatest, just want it to be reasonably priced and can do everything I want to do. Alan Toner Apple fans can be both geeks and nerds. There are graphic designers and video editors that swear by Macs and I am sure there are many other people who will as well. Apple is overpriced inferior hardware but Windows is utter garbage. I use PC hardware with Linux as my OS so I get all the benefits that Mac users get but I also get many more including the cost of my computers. OSX is easily superior to Windows but that is not saying OSX is great or even good, Windows is just utter garbage.
Michael Tunnell This generalization is too inaccurate.
The OP did the no true scotsman fallacy there too...
I don't think Apple computers have any relation with geekyness, no matter if positive or negative. But if a geek uses Mac they will use the command line and Unix capabilities of OS X.
STEM professors commonly use Macs now after Apple switched to x86 and the FreeBSD core. So you could say nobody is using the traditional Mac OS anymore; Apple killed it and now use *nix.
I consider myself a nerd: my fav. Subject is literature
I've always thought that 'geek' was only really skin deep, but that 'nerd' went straight to the bone.
By this definition, being a "nerd" has to do with how into their subject/s of interest one is and how that affects them socially. What makes a nerd a nerd is that they're so into their subject/s of interest that they either don't realize or don't care that others perceive them as weird and too obsessed with the thing/s they're into. So if it's the dedication and social aspects that make a nerd, why are certain subjects considered "nerdy" and others not? Surely one could be a box set nerd or a Linux nerd if it's the dedication to the subject that makes them a nerd.
Anyway, I feel like the definition of "nerd" has changed, since most of the things that used to be considered "nerdy" are now either cool or at least socially acceptable.
Depends, a balance of RAM, CPU power, and hard drive data transfer speeds is what all helps with speed. I had a much more noticeable speed different in the ability to load up software just by swapping out 8GB 1333mhz ram for 16GB 2000mhz, it makes a big difference finding that balance.
Her voice is so soothing. She just has to talk about anything and I'd fall into a hypnotic state.
The World needs more nerds like her :)
I love her voice. SO GORGEOUS
Her voice is mesmerising...
Wow that graph just figuratively stabbed me
The pain
Love the Red Dwarf reference!
Red Dwarf reference!!!!!!!!!!!!! splendid! "My bad ass Calculus skills are pretty freaky".... sweet mercy.
I can listen to that voice all day.
My IQ is way bigger than my bodyweight.
In Kilograms...
The host's english pronunciation is extraordinary.
I’m a combination of both, which I accept. I love Harry Potter, I’ve read the entire series, (HP) I wear glasses, but I don’t like many people to know. I’ve been learning Greek and French currently at the age of ten. And I’m obsessed with learning about space, so I’d say, scientifically, I’m more of a “nerd”. I can solve a 3x3 Rubik’s Cube sub 2 minutes, I read at recess. I really don’t feel the need to go on.
I would say I’m closer to geek since while I read constantly And I’m a fair but smarter than average joe I’m no expert on most subjects and rather focus on coding and by extension video games and instead of reading at lunch in school I’d rather bring a retro Nintendo handheld from my collection and play that at lunch
I was wondering about this as well and i am certainly a nerd. Never understood why people get obsessed over some peace of literature or movie etc. I like science and science fiction, video games and movies but i barely pay intention to the names of the characters in the stories.
Well.. That settles it! Next video has to be about geeks and dorks!
This is brilliantly interesting!
She has the most relaxing voice!
I just spent 6 minutes that I never expected to spend today :) and the MOST delicious VOICE!
To put it easy way, Geeks are the subscribers of nerds's practices or products. As a geek I think being a nerd is wayyy cooler like my brother who is software engineer. If you're a nerd and want to explain what you do to ordinary people you should bring a geek with you then he/she will make you a cool guy in the party.
thanks for helping me with this! I am finally coming to grips with I am a bit of both
I need to start playing these in the background as I go to sleep (alone that is). Peaceful, yet wet dreams guaranteed...
It's drawn in Photoshop with a pen and tablet - then use 'screen recording' feature in Quicktime, the it is sped up to fit the dialogue.
You're not only perfect being a redhead. I love it. Not only are you beautiful but your voice is so smooth and solemn. Plus you're so smart too!
I love your voice, its so relaxing.
dream come true, my favorite read explaining stuff..
2013. Back when 16GB of RAM was a lot.