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While I disagree with GP, I think there is a difference here. As GP mentioned, nerds tinkered with computers growing up, despite a stigma. There isn't such a so

While I disagree with GP, I think there is a difference here. As GP mentioned, nerds tinkered with computers growing up, despite a stigma. There isn't such a social phenomenon for accounting or medicine, those are things that almost everyone gets into in college or later. Yet, as I said, I disagree with GP. The word "natural" is misleading, it sounds like he or she is suggesting a natural inborn aptitude, and we don't have evidence to support that. Unless all that "natural" meant here was "commonly occurring, happening without prompting", in which case I would agree.

pekk 12y ago
I'm pretty sure there are females and males who have more natural aptitude or preference for one or another kind of technical work. And they typically are stigmatized as nerds when this is publicly known. We just don't have to suppose that nerds are more commonly male. It's too bad that it's not socially acceptable just to support nerds regardless of their gender. But that is just more of the same stigma which never really ended.