3: Swearing by your Myers-Briggs Personality Type

In order to swear by something like a Myers-Briggs Personality Type, I'm going to make a leap and say you have to know your type by heart. For instance, I'm INTJ, which is quite possibly the nerdiest of personality types. Don't know what those letters stand for? Don't even know what the Myers-Briggs Personality Type is all about? Grasshopper, you have much to learn!

Myers and Briggs were a mother-daughter duo who developed a test to classify personality types according to the psychological philosophies developed by Carl Jung. There are four basic parameters and a binary classification for each:

Introvert - Extrovert
iNtuitive - Sensing
Thinking - Feeling
Judging - Perceiving

The best way to proceed is really to just take the Myers-Briggs Personality Test. This is the do-it-yourself kind of test that can be taken over and over again online, opposed to the complete battery of questions that must be administered by a trained professional. One day, maybe I'll get to take the official Myers-Briggs Type Indicator^® (MBTI^®) personality inventory.

2: Making anagrams at inappropriate times

For instance, when you're really enraged by something, and you realize you can make the word angered using the same letters in a different order. It takes the piss out of being pissed!

1: Using the word "cute" to describe "data analysis"

This very first nerd indicator (nerdicator) is in reference to a linguistic study conducted by Andy Martin, where he used data from the US Census to examine a particular linguistic phenomenon in English. Essentially, The Origins of Lexical Biases: Evidence from Navajo Compounds and English Naming Preferences found that English names with the same liquids (/r/ and /l/) tend to appear less frequently together (as in Margaret and Delilah compared to the more common Claire and Eleanor).