I mean nerdy differently. Nerdy would be someone that is functioning beyond what is considered normal for his or her level of aptitude.
I have seen write ups that say many Asian populations function as if they are 20 points of IQ higher academically than they are because they study drastically more hours. It a cultural thing.
There are people that literally cruise through information with minor effort.
So someone that is considered gifted is usually good at anything they try and learn. Its a general aptitude. And it applies to social skills also.
Someone that is nerdy, tends to be overachieving ina more limited range of directions based upon a lot of effort.
I'm generalizing of course
As far as which kind of proffessional I would want. In a perfect world I would want a gifted person that had an obsession with her or her chosen discipline.
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Originally posted by AKA_Monet
James--
I am so confused by your comments above... Maybe I'm not that brainy or gifted, I guess...
But I do know that many nerdy folks have to do those kinds of things as a survival tactic in order to be successful in their chosen fields.
I mean, I work with MD's everywhere. The you really want a hard working, brain or cardiac surgeon who studied his or her stuff--i.e. went nerdy on you--wouldn't you? I could care less about the eccentrisities of a gifted, talented scientist or doctor if my life was on the line... I really wouldn't want to hold a personable conversation with that him or her... But that's just me...
However, if I was talking to a philosopher, sociologist, or religious scholar which discussion was the name of the game... Well... Then, that's what they do...
But hard scientists and even so far as psychology are very wound up with provable, experimentation with Eigan values and T-scores.. I mean, I am always determining the significance of my data when I am testing the efficacy of my knockout/transgenic mice I make... Because of one off value I might have, could be the whole mistake made in forming drugs that cause serious side effects, like Vioxx... Folks just don't be checkin' how
well their values are...
And that is Bioethics 101...
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