Yes. And since I have to have at least 15 characters in my reply, I will say Yes again.

I used to work in IT, so yes :)

I think there's a lot of people on here that like to read up on science so I'd say I'm not the only one!

I just own a little bike shop. I'm a retail/small biz guy. I did go to college in Electrical Engineering and Natural Science/Math, but have never been employed in any of that jazz. I really am only gaining the skills just now to read and analyze and use my PaleoSkeptic powers on various studies and reports of studies in the media. I'm certainly not a technical "nerd" (but I am a dork)

I rely on sites such as this, the writing of Eades, Taubes, Harris, Guynet (spelling), Peter @ Hyperlipid, DrBG, Dr T, Davis, etc etc. to help me navigate those rocky shoals of Conventional Wisdom and the Low Fat/Processed food agenda.

The PaleoNerds are my heroes, and I love that all this information is floating around for free and so accessible.

Maybe it's just having a good brain that makes you so receptive to Paleo.

Full disclosure: although I'm a chef now, I was in IT/Tech Support/Web Design for a few years leading up to my career change...

I'm more of a geek, actually. See the Venn diagram:

http://www.greatwhitesnark.com/2010/03/25/difference-between-nerd-dork-and-geek-explained-in-a-venn-diagram/

I'm an IT professional, have a smokin hard body, low body fat percentage, eat paleo, and strength train.

If some stranger called me a nerd on the street (highly doubtful) I would not hesitate to show him my technical uppercut followed by a scientific right cross.

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Paleo Geek here.

I'm a heavy reader, artist, and tinkerer. I've been a hard core comic book fan and sci-fi freak for 40 years. My comic books / toys / props / statues have their own room.

I also worked for year in IT before I stopped working for 'the man' and went into graphic design.

I've been Paleo for over 2 years and I'm not quite buff yet, but I do look killer in my Punisher t-shirt. ;)

I'm not a techie, but I do work for a tech company...

Yup! Guilty. Nerd. IT professional. San Diego Comic Con attendee with a new-found love for liver. :P

Could it be that certain types of personalities tend to seek out new information, learning new trades and a general curiousity for life? How to improve themselves and/or the environment in which they live? Paleo easily falls into that.

And oh, I'm a programmer, of course. What else did you expect?

I had Star Trek references in my wedding vows.

Is the paleo community full of nerds?

YES!

And is this site not a place for the subculture of superpaleonerds? I have to say I love the rating system: the more points a member gets, the more a nerd he/she is. This makes it easy to notice the nerd, since body language is hidden on the internet...

;-)

Biology/science geek :)

You bet I am: libertarianism, economics, evolution, technology, and getting into programming.

Nerds are receptive because paleo is based on a simple evolutionary argument. So you have to be comfortable with trusting your life to an abstract theory (albeit an extremely well established one). Especially when all the "experts" are saying the opposite: it takes intellectual fortitude to trust reason over authority.

I've been writin' computer code since 1996, so yeah, definitely.

I can quote Hamlet line by line from memory. I guess that makes me a total nerd - of the literary variety. (Yes, Brent Pottenger, if you're reading this, there are some random paleo people on the Internet who get an appreciate your Derrida/bricolage and all those random litcrit embedded allusions you include everywhere;)

Not a Nerd, but I really like to read the thoughts of nerds and enjoy following a Paleo-style way of eating. I'm a fiction writer and a Christ follower. So much for stereotyping the Paleo community, lol. :-)

DoubleNerd. Asperger´s brain works only in science mode. Job is in a laboratory. Most comments here are great!

I have a Masters Degree in Nerdism.. I mean Computer Science :) Someone called me a nerd in grade 5 so I just went with it.

I sometimes wonder if there is a whole offline Paleo community that get together for picnics and BBQs that we don't know about.

Analytic philosopher, so not over-turning any stereotypes here...

I'm more of a kook, myself.

I like to make big fires and I like to blow small shit up.

I think I'm a nerd wanna-be. (Isn't that pathetic!) I try, but I was schooled in an age when girls weren't expected to really thrive in math or science.

I tend not to understand why half a percent is statistically significant in one place, while several percentage points are not statistically significant in other places. I felt pretty inadequate when reading Good Calories, Bad Calories. (But I read the whole thing.)

I also tend to not quite get the Star Wars or Dr. Who quotes right. (But I do fairly well with Monty Python. :-)

I had no idea how many geeks, nerds and techies were in the paleo community. I'm just the average woman who loves good food and good health. And, in my mid-50s, would look pretty good in a tight paleo shirt!

I'm the nerd who you would see on the street and have no idea I was one of your kind. I'm also a contrarian and always have been, so going against the conventional wisdom is second nature. I also derive joy from challenging my "granola" parents on food-related topics. They love and hate my new diet simultaneously, but they have to be glad that I'm no longer living off of Taco Bell.

If I am lusting over the upcoming Tron release and I am stoked that Disney wrapped a monorail in Tron Lightcycle imagery what am I? BS in Chemistry, MBA in International Business but I am an Internal Auditor who is a certified IS auditor. Big time sports enthusiast. I think I might classify as a spazz?

What does it make me that I carried a 10 lbs. Oxford English-Spanish dictionary in my backpack for 5 years even though I had left the U after year two and the last three were abroad on vacation? I like me some learnin' and tend to be on the obsessed side. So according to the graph, I'm probably a true geek, with nerd tendencies. THE NERDS SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH.

i am dumd, so no.

I am a nerd, but an English-lit kind of nerd. And you might not know at first that I am - because I work in PR, wear make-up and spend lots on clothes. I have recently rediscovered that I am actually ok at science - after giving up on chemistry in high-school (too much maths). In any case, I am coping well with reading Good Calories, Bad Calories. And I love that the internet allows you to find people who obsess over this stuff - cos most people I know think I am slightly unbalanced about it. But hey, they all have a lot more bodyfat than me, so who's right? ;-)

I am a software engineer student, so I would have to add myself to the list. :)

Nope- I'm not a nerd, but I am weird...leaning more along the lines of a girl version of Richard Nikoley I believe, because I can cuss too.

I am just a practical, logical person who possibly should have become a nerd but became a hobby-farming mommy instead.