I wonder if it’s also something of a era-specific description of the nerd. The smart over-achievers of my days (the 2000s to 2010s) were all athletic (mostly t

I wonder if it’s also something of a era-specific description of the nerd. The smart over-achievers of my days (the 2000s to 2010s) were all athletic (mostly tennis and basketball), popular and socially well-adjusted. And they trounced everyone else’s test scores consistently. But Southern California isn’t typical or representative of the nation as a whole so I might be stuck in some kind of local maxima/minima.