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The
other day I had a taxi ride. As you all know, whenever you go from or to
university taxi drivers start asking about the university and everything
concerning it. And of course this one wasn’t an exception. But this time I was
pretty much surprised: “You know, the
friend of mine works there and every time I go to visit him I always see the
students wearing glasses. I wouldn’t say 100%, but 95% of students definitely
do! This means that they are all “nerds (botany)”! I don’t like them because of
the way they drive! They are too slow and scared to drive!”
Do
people really think that wearing glasses has a power to turn you into a nerd?
Are all people smart and intelligent if they wear glasses? In order to answer
these questions I conducted an online survey among my friends, online
“friends”, relatives and acquaintances. Each of them got the survey separately.
All in all 66 people (aged 14-55) were sent the questions and I received almost
40 answers. First, I asked the question “What is your first impression of a
person wearing glasses?” Generally, the vast majority of people answered that
they see a person, who has problems with eyesight. Some told they think of an
intelligent, smart and important person. Some even managed to give such common
professions as a teacher, student, scientist and professor. While others showed
a slight negative attitude towards such people, characterizing them as nerds,
who are annoying, tiresome (nudnyi) and boring.
And
then I asked these people to write three words that are associated with “a
nerd”. In their responses together with such associated objects: brains, books,
science, glasses, studies and aspiration, there were a lot of adjectives. Here
I tried to place them from positive to negative:
The variety of answers made the
survey fun, these participants taught upon not only the traits of nerds, but
also their habits and behavior: “They
look different”, “They don’t like
parties and they hang over only in
their own circles”, “They only know
their own business”. But you cannot imagine how “creative” can a person be,
when they put such words together: “ Good analytic, lettered (nachitannyi),
with high intellect and simply perisher (zanuda) “, “ interesting, politician
and coward”, “ professor, old-fashioned and gay”. So, how many people, so many
minds! How poor is you eyesight and how do you think it is connected to your
intelligence?
