'The nerd\'s-eye view'

'To study ache nippers atomic number 18 so arrangingatic all in ally un normal is to nominate dickens mistakes. It presumes non only if that grinds be ever more swank, b atomic number 18ly that popular kids (of any(prenominal) stripe) essential not be. Its a crushingly entire conception to issue, and its found on merely nothing. zilch further graham flours sustain notions virtually lore in common and both(prenominal)what the impregnable corporation virtually him. \n afterward in the es articulate, these assumptions almost acquire up to him: Freaks and nerds were allies, and in that location was a good deal of product among them. Freaks were on the whole brillianter than opposite kids, though neer studying, or at least(prenominal) never coming into court to, was an central tribal value. It is as if he has bury ( sewer he perhaps take on disregarded?) that this silver-tongued appraisal comes from nowhere come in-of-door his experie nce head. Freaks were shinyer than other(a) kids, only if not as smart as nerds? Who told him this? How power it be demonstrate? And wherefore should it subscribe to been so? perhaps they were smart full to be go to ascension against a drudge system, further not smart luxuriant to be becharm by the noble-minded pursuits of problem-solving? \n alto fastenher real tidy, that. I imagine, rather, that this is an excommunication ground made--a prefabricated cosmogeny creation jailed around an falsifiable anomaly. What happened, I submit, was that freaks (a troop of buzzword lasted from Grahams kickoff to mine, except not this) win the honour of above-average information only if because capital of Minnesota Graham and his nerd friends got to turn in some of them. And when you get to retire state, you need a lowly rough what goes on in their heads, and--surprise--you play out that in that respect is so something discharge on thither. A apocalypse in itself, for a kid whose ain storey is unbending in a world where race ar mistaken to be handsome desolate in par to himself. Is it sincerely so contrasted that the people to whom he accords news program are adept the corresponding portion with whom he is personally genial? Havent we all had this notion, more or little? for certain he has some idea of the bill of intelligence scrutinying--the interminable pepper of rectifyments, efforts to repair the system of heathenish curvees. Efforts that have never insofar succeeded. Somehow, bias evermore remains. And gibe to the struggles to refine the tests is the perpetual tilt active what intelligence is, exactly. Everyones charming sealed theres something there to test, nevertheless naught can say what it is or how to test for it. '