It wasn’t long ago that Harvard Business Review crowned data scientist as the sexist job of the 21st century, a sign of the times. Now, almost everyone wants to fit in with the geeks and nerds. Perhaps we should have seen this coming, since the kids who were considered cool in elementary and high school took a decidedly different turn.
According to a study in Child Development journal, “What Ever Happened to the ‘Cool’ Kids?” the pseudomature kids who engaged in vandalism, substance abuse, and “precocious romantic involvement” were more likely to be popular at the age of 13, but by the age of 23, they were more likely to engage in criminal behavior and have substance abuse problems than the kids considered to be geeks and nerds and generally just not as cool.
