Exactly right. Relatively speaking, our culture is very anti-intellectual and backwards. Athletic heroes are praised by the entire community, while the math whi

Exactly right. Relatively speaking, our culture is very anti-intellectual and backwards. Athletic heroes are praised by the entire community, while the math whizes are ridiculed and viewed as socially undesirable. In that kind of environment, not many people who have both options will go the way of the math geek.