Apparently doing ones own computer upgrades doesn't count for much because I do all mine as well, yet my score has barely changed from what it was in 2004 - and that's with me having a computer that never seems to have its cover on AND using Linux AND being a devoted DS and Buffy fan.
40.23669 has to be a forum high - at least among the people who were willing to share their results. I have NO idea how you were able to reach that level. You must walk around dressed as a Star Wars/Star Trek character 24/7 while also wearing a pair of glasses that are taped to hold together while also wearing a pocket protector filled with four color pens while also reading a comic book in one hand and playing a video game in the other while only speaking in Klingon.
We need to work on developing your inner geek.
. All kidding aside, the way those questions were skewed, it looked like they were concentrating on multiple interests across the geek scale to get the grades. They also included stuff like an interest in history and reading as well as the stereotypical math and science. Add all of the above, sounds like the typical science fiction fan to me. With a lot of people in DS fandom (but way way WAY less so on this board) my impression is that it's their one and only exposure to fandom, and a lot of them don't come in with the wide range of interests that's typical in science fiction and media fandom in general. My interests are all over the map, even before I found fandom in 1975. Like most people,I don't ever lose interest in a specific fandom, just keep accumulating more new ones along the way. Maybe you need a few new fandoms to boost your measurable geekiness, if not your copious spare time.
Nah, don't dress that way. (Sorry, Dom, you'll have to work harder than that.) I wear the usual fannish uniform of t shirts and jeans at cons. I do have some professionally done ears somewhere, and a set of theatrical custom molded fangs (lovely thing about a Science Fiction con is that you get cool panels by folks like makeup artists, where you can learn to do stuff like that). Only wore them for Halloween Fundraisers at my job, though.
Maybe the other high level geeks are just trying not to be noticed. In the mundane world smart, creative and different gets you picked on. Some people haven't yet tumbled to the fact that smart and well informed is FUN and a lack of knowledge and curiosity is boring.
Jeannie