It's a bit of a quirky conundrum. If you retain the scores, you encourage the nerd's competitive nature; the desire to 1-up another in conversation, to be the m

It's a bit of a quirky conundrum. If you retain the scores, you encourage the nerd's competitive nature; the desire to 1-up another in conversation, to be the most right with passionate detail. Strangely, this type of nerd tends to get it right. If your game is to be better at knowing then you'd be sure you always had the most logical, concise rebuttal or point of view that you can possibly have. You can take just about any sport and find an analogy to pair well here. It's my guess that the nerds who prefer the scores hidden aren't as competitive as the others, in which case, see the scores as a distraction of truth rather than an indicator of it. Personally, I think the scores are a distraction, but I can't overlook that they do seem to encourage (in a backwards way, it seems) a much more pointed and refined point of view.