What percentage of geeks are vegetarian?
You'll never believe what I'm doing today.
I am working on innergeek.us and going through geekmaster emails that have long been neglected. Which mostly means deleting all the spam.
Occasionally, there are curious emails about specific questions on the geek test. It's not that I don't appreciate the fact that people still email me when the site and test are clearly outdated, but just how exactly am I supposed to respond to emails like this?
Hi,
one of the questions in the geek test is "I have looked forward to dissecting a frog, pig, etc.". Perhaps you didn't notice, but relatively a large percent of the geeks are vegetarian, or close to be ones. So I afraid that this is not so good question.
I guess I should put that one on the list of crazy emails I've received in the past. It's not really crazy... just weird. I would argue that geeks are more likely to be meat eaters than vegetarians. Feel free to leave your own thoughts in the comments.
In other news, the whole ansty situation of what does my website mean in conjunction with what does my life mean and will I ever be a writer is really getting on my nerves, and maybe this is the finally-somewhat-like-spring-weather talking, but I'm ready to do something about it. With baby steps, I think, to prevent an insta-overwhelm.
Of course I still need to finish up my taxes and get that off my shoulders by Tuesday. Blech. Normally I love figuring out taxes (nerd alert), but this year it's a little more complicated and it's making me nervous that I'm going to screw it up. And that's just asking for procrastination...








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i would say that there are two kinds of geeks.. Those sweaty ones who don't know which guy is in the White House and don't care about much... and those who are inspired by the world, they study it and yes - from my knowing there's some percentage of vegetarians.. and also bigger than among the ordinary human kind.
Sorry about my English. Woke up 15mins ago...
Posted by: Lo0m | April 13, 2008 10:31 PM
Hey! I am a vegetarian geek, and what that person says in his/her email is true (considering you became a vegetarian because you didn't want to cause suffering to animals), but I don't think there's a general tendency in geeks towards being vegetarian or avid meat-eaters, it depends on which kind of geek you are :)
Posted by: Sebastián | April 14, 2008 05:35 AM
The dissection question is valid because a core tenet of geekery is the desire to know how something works, which dissection teaches us.
Being a vegetarian does not necessarily exclude one from being interested in dissection, though it raises the probability.
Even if the submitter is correct in their assertion that many geeks are vegetarian (citation needed!) not every question in the test is intended for every person.
Posted by: WithaK
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April 14, 2008 05:43 AM