These are not my definitions

[andrewducker]

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[drainboy.livejournal.com]

Maybe not your definitions but that's definitely my chosen differentiation between nerd and geek. Never thought what a dweeb or dork was before though.

[andrewducker]

It's not that far off of mine. I'd put Nerd where Dweeb is, and not have anything in the middle.

[don-fitch.livejournal.com]

Fairly close to my (admittedly vague) definitions, but I do have Serious Doubts about this kind of diagram, with perfect & equal-size overlapping circles with their centers arranged in an equilateral triangle. I guess it covers the Theory reasonably well (whether one agrees with it or not) but it seems a bit misleading in terms of application or numbers.

And yeah, I think of Obsession as a usually-negative quality, and of Dweeb as being more negative than Nerd.