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▲ lanstin 2 days ago

Probably enough for 90% of such folks to be tormented quite effectively during childhood.

▲bear141 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

This is a great point. If a small percentage of the population is openly and aggressively negative towards another part of the population, it makes sense that they would both artificially appear as if they are a larger part of the population, to each other. I think it goes both ways.

▲macbem 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Anyone who's a bit different has a high chance of having been bullied at some point. It doesn't mean that society hates this specific group of people.

▲LPisGood 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I _highly_ doubt 90% of nerdy people were tormented during childhood. Have you spent time in/around academia? These people are massive nerds and horrendous childhood torment is pretty rare.

▲ted_dunning 2 days ago | parent [-]

It was 100% in my personal experience.

▲LPisGood a day ago | parent [-]

I’m not saying it doesn’t happen. I’m not even saying it doesn’t happen at all higher rate than the general population.

But 90% is just too much to be feasible.

▲lanstin a day ago | parent [-]

Well all good stats are made up.

My point was more that its doesn't take a large chunk of a population to mistreat others to make mistreatment almost inescapable.

For child sexual abuse, which is studied more than "anti-nerd bullying" offenders are just a few percent of the population, if that (I can't actually find good sources for population incidence of being an abuser) but the offended against are 1/6 to 1/3 of the population.

Another interesting point is that some nerdy folks might not even notice the bullying that much - I once had a friend from high school say that they always felt bad for how much bullying I experienced, and I said "what? what do you mean?" I felt that many of the folks in high school were terribly evil people, but I didn't get that upset by the bullying itself. Just determined to move as soon as I could. Not like as a strategy to over come the bullying, just to get among people I can respect.