> So people who are sterotypically nerds do better at sterotypically nerdy things? I don’t get what makes you think that that is the conclusion. Study doesn’t

> So people who are sterotypically nerds do better at sterotypically nerdy things? I don’t get what makes you think that that is the conclusion. Study doesn’t look at the cluster of open source contributors against “rest of the world”, there is no stereotype being established here. It is examining concrete project dynamics (e.g. pull request acceptance) against personality traits within open source developers. Big five is such a widely applicable factor analysis that I don’t think there is one particular configuration that would define a “nerd” except maybe for introversion-extraversion axis. Since the study shows meaningful differences on other axes too, I don’t think it is about nerdiness at all.