Yeah, I'm a nerd virgin and STDs are the one thing I don't need to worry about at all.

... somehow, I'd much prefer worrying about STDs.

Logan Frederick:
The saddening results found that "males in the study were less likely to have had sex as a group compared to the group of females in the sample."

It's cause even if a girl is a nerd, she still has a chest. :P

Wow next they will figure out that a cheetos diet is bad for you, thanks science.

"males in the study were less likely to have had **sex as a group** compared to the group of females in the sample."

Heh. That's, well... heh.

Good thing i want to go into character model design

So...have we cured cancer yet?

I mean, why else would science focus on such stupid, needless studies that pretty much everyone already knew the answers to?

I like how it's the guys who go to raves and parties who are more sexually active... well of course they'll be more sexually active. They'll also have a higher chance of an unwanted pregnancy too.

What's the point of using funding and rigourous scientific experimentation for shit that everyone already knows?

Wow, science, they can't find the cure for bloody death, but they can find a useless piece of knowledge the entire world knows already.

Well Duh! Obviously!

Wow...raise your hand if you're shocked by this.

Lvl 64 Klutz:
And thus I have proven that communication studies is not a science ;)

Well, I'm prolly one of the outliers in your survey :<

"And thus did God create alcohol, in all its many forms, to give the nerdy and socially inept the courage to procreate with the opposite sex."

~ Book of $%*#(@, Chapter 4, Verse 10

And we need studys for this.. GG on blowing money. It would have been better spent on trying to get them nerds laid then anything less, at least that is somewhat more productive.

Wait, aren't the guys that did this study male science nerds? That's kind of ironic if you ask me.

xitel:
Wait, aren't the guys that did this study male science nerds? That's kind of ironic if you ask me.

The world is full of it.

Ahh, science. What would we do without it?

...

Have more sex, it seems.

Hevoo:

xitel:
Wait, aren't the guys that did this study male science nerds? That's kind of ironic if you ask me.

The world is full of it.

Oh trust me, I know. Like the fact that I'm a science nerd, and I'm talking to my girlfriend while I read this.

xitel:

Hevoo:

xitel:
Wait, aren't the guys that did this study male science nerds? That's kind of ironic if you ask me.

The world is full of it.

Oh trust me, I know. Like the fact that I'm a science nerd, and I'm talking to my girlfriend while I read this.

I call shenanigans on you! Statistically speaking you are probably lying apparently.

crimson5pheonix:

xitel:

Hevoo:

xitel:
Wait, aren't the guys that did this study male science nerds? That's kind of ironic if you ask me.

The world is full of it.

Oh trust me, I know. Like the fact that I'm a science nerd, and I'm talking to my girlfriend while I read this.

I call shenanigans on you! Statistically speaking you are probably lying apparently.

What statistics are you talking about? I was.

xitel:

crimson5pheonix:

xitel:

Hevoo:

xitel:
Wait, aren't the guys that did this study male science nerds? That's kind of ironic if you ask me.

The world is full of it.

Oh trust me, I know. Like the fact that I'm a science nerd, and I'm talking to my girlfriend while I read this.

I call shenanigans on you! Statistically speaking you are probably lying apparently.

What statistics are you talking about? I was.

The statistics, aren't you paying attention?

I don't really see the big deal with some people being virgins, wouldn't you rather have sex with someone you love rather just some random partyer? Like my friend who met a girl through a party, "eloped" for a while and wound up with a case of crabs. Where I found a girl I like and she liked me and I've been crab free.

Logan Frederick:

Psychotherapist Stephen Carroll believes the problem isn't caused by any unattractiveness of nerds, but that their work habits were a detriment to their social lives.

And I believe that ugly, fat chicks don't get laid because 'their work habits were a detriment to their social lives'.
I know it's a cliché, but: Psychotherapists need therapy!

A nerd is unattractive. Now get over it and enjoy your life!

Copter400:
What's the point of using funding and rigourous scientific experimentation for shit that everyone already knows?

Because in today's world, something is only true if you can prove it.

Radelaide:

Logan Frederick:
The saddening results found that "males in the study were less likely to have had sex as a group compared to the group of females in the sample."

It's cause even if a girl is a nerd, she still has a chest. :P

I'm happy to see that sometimes, there's more honesty on the internets than in RL.

I'm a male arts student and I can vouch that the vast majority of the females in my university program are idiotic slutbags. I'm also a virgin, but I'm probably nerdier and more anti-social than those science students, so there's my explanation.

SunoffaBeach:
Oh trust me, I know. Like the fact that I'm a science nerd, and I'm talking to my girlfriend while I read this.

Yes, because anecdotal evidence is incredibly reliable for making broad generalisations about a population sample.

Copter400:
What's the point of using funding and rigourous scientific experimentation for shit that everyone already knows?

Because a lot of the time, "shit that everyone already knows" actually winds up to be incorrect. You'd be surprised how many folk stories, urban legends, and other "common knowledge" things are actually untrue or highly exaggerated. The point of this study is to cast light upon that "common knowledge" and determine whether or not it is actually credible. This is one of the few cases where reality actually does match up with the myth.

Radelaide:
It's cause even if a girl is a nerd, she still has a chest. :P

Actually, nerdy females are probably more desirable for the majority of males, as it's more likely that their higher intelligence and more typically "male" interests will be more appealing. The reasons why attractive, intelligent females with good interests are so hard to find are simply that a) there aren't that many of them and b) the ones that do exist are instantly claimed by others.

KendayTheAbsolute:
WOW science found out what the whole world already knew.
(maybe not the best think to post on a gaming website)

seconded

crimson5pheonix:

xitel:

crimson5pheonix:

xitel:

Hevoo:

xitel:
Wait, aren't the guys that did this study male science nerds? That's kind of ironic if you ask me.

The world is full of it.

Oh trust me, I know. Like the fact that I'm a science nerd, and I'm talking to my girlfriend while I read this.

I call shenanigans on you! Statistically speaking you are probably lying apparently.

What statistics are you talking about? I was.

The statistics, aren't you paying attention?

Okay, let's look at the statistics. There's a 50-50 chance I have a girlfriend. I do, so that doesn't matter. There's a 100% chance that I am reading the thread. There's a 50-50 chance that I am talking to my girlfriend, which I am, so that's another one that is done with. Finally, there is a 25-75 chance that I am talking to her at the same time, which, seeing as how I have posted here 4 times, means that by Law of Probability I have been reading this thread and talking to her at the same time at least once. There are your statistics. And I believe I have also proven that I am a nerd.

xitel:

crimson5pheonix:

xitel:

crimson5pheonix:

xitel:

Hevoo:

xitel:
Wait, aren't the guys that did this study male science nerds? That's kind of ironic if you ask me.

The world is full of it.

Oh trust me, I know. Like the fact that I'm a science nerd, and I'm talking to my girlfriend while I read this.

I call shenanigans on you! Statistically speaking you are probably lying apparently.

What statistics are you talking about? I was.

The statistics, aren't you paying attention?

Okay, let's look at the statistics. There's a 50-50 chance I have a girlfriend. I do, so that doesn't matter. There's a 100% chance that I am reading the thread. There's a 50-50 chance that I am talking to my girlfriend, which I am, so that's another one that is done with. Finally, there is a 25-75 chance that I am talking to her at the same time, which, seeing as how I have posted here 4 times, means that by Law of Probability I have been reading this thread and talking to her at the same time at least once. There are your statistics. And I believe I have also proven that I am a nerd.

And here are my statistics. There is a 99% chance (plus or minus epsilon) that I am messing with you. There is a 10% chance that you have figured this out by now. And finally there is a (derivative of e^x)% chance that statistics is nothing but BS anyway.

xitel:

Okay, let's look at the statistics. There's a 50-50 chance I have a girlfriend. I do, so that doesn't matter. There's a 100% chance that I am reading the thread. There's a 50-50 chance that I am talking to my girlfriend, which I am, so that's another one that is done with. Finally, there is a 25-75 chance that I am talking to her at the same time, which, seeing as how I have posted here 4 times, means that by Law of Probability I have been reading this thread and talking to her at the same time at least once. There are your statistics. And I believe I have also proven that I am a nerd.

I call shenanigans on those statistics!
a) according to the scientific study, the chance of you having a girlfriend is significantly lower than 1/2.
b) while unlikely, there is a possibility that you are not reading the thread while typing. You may just be one of those monkeys we always hear about that randomly types out the works of William Shakespeare.
c) you talk to your girlfriend for 50% of the time?! That seems like an awful lot. Unless you talk to each other in your sleep, but then how would you know?
d) where the 25 - 75% probability comes from I don't know. I think you just made it up.
e) I may now be an even greater nerd for replying to this.

searanox:

SunoffaBeach:
Oh trust me, I know. Like the fact that I'm a science nerd, and I'm talking to my girlfriend while I read this.

I'm not a science nerd and I never talk to my girlfriend because I don't have one.
Be careful while quoting ;)

The_root_of_all_evil:
When was being a virgin decided as a bad thing anyway?

That's what I was going to ask.

This is almost as bad as the headline "Studies by government scientists has shown that water freezes in cold temperatures." My response was "...Our fucking tax dollars at work."

Lukeje:

xitel:

Okay, let's look at the statistics. There's a 50-50 chance I have a girlfriend. I do, so that doesn't matter. There's a 100% chance that I am reading the thread. There's a 50-50 chance that I am talking to my girlfriend, which I am, so that's another one that is done with. Finally, there is a 25-75 chance that I am talking to her at the same time, which, seeing as how I have posted here 4 times, means that by Law of Probability I have been reading this thread and talking to her at the same time at least once. There are your statistics. And I believe I have also proven that I am a nerd.

I call shenanigans on those statistics!
a) according to the scientific study, the chance of you having a girlfriend is significantly lower than 1/2.
b) while unlikely, there is a possibility that you are not reading the thread while typing. You may just be one of those monkeys we always hear about that randomly types out the works of William Shakespeare.
c) you talk to your girlfriend for 50% of the time?! That seems like an awful lot. Unless you talk to each other in your sleep, but then how would you know?
d) where the 25 - 75% probability comes from I don't know. I think you just made it up.
e) I may now be an even greater nerd for replying to this.

Yes sir, you are more of a nerd. I created the statistics from the fact that I can either have a girlfriend or not, and nothing in between, so logically speaking (rather than mathematically) it's a 50-50. That's how I figured out the talking to my girlfriend tone as well. I could either be talking to her, or not talking to her. The 25-75 comes from the requirement of a correlation. There are 4 possibilities: 1) I could be neither reading the thread or talking to her. 2) I could be talking to her but not reading the thread. 3) I could be reading the thread but not talking to her. Or 4) I could be doing both. 25-75. Of course, this is all rendered moot by the fact that I am in fact talking to her and reading the thread.

What a waste of time...