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Irreligion, video game usage and obesity (view source)
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Robin Hanson wrote: "This was my third year at GenCon, an annual convention where thousands play board games, role playing games, miniatures games, etc. Most attendees are, well, nerds. Mostly male too.<ref>[http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/08/why-nerds-like-games.html Why nerds like games] by Robert Hanson</ref>
Robin Hanson wrote: "This was my third year at GenCon, an annual convention where thousands play board games, role playing games, miniatures games, etc. Most attendees are, well, nerds. Mostly male too.<ref>[http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/08/why-nerds-like-games.html Why nerds like games] by Robert Hanson</ref>
[[File:PZ Myers.jpg|thumbnail|220px|right|[[PZ Myers]],
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In 2013, the atheist [[PZ Myers]] declared:
{{cquote|If we're going to expand our base and we're going to draw in more people to recognize the virtues of living in a secular world, we need to appeal to more than just that geek and [[nerd]] subset of the population. We need to have a wider base. ...I seriously believe that we're on the cusp of a crisis. We're not there yet but it's looming in front of us. Will we adapt and thrive and change the world? Or will we remain an avocation for a prosperous and largely irrelevant subset of the population? Will we become something more than a scattered society of [[Internet atheism|internet nerds]]? That's what we have to do.<ref>[http://www.evolutionnews.org/2013/04/in_seattle_pz_m070861.html in Seattle, PZ Myers Reflects Candidly on His Constituency]</ref>}}
In response, David Klinghoffer at ''[[Evolution]] News and Views'' wrote:
{{cquote|A crisis looms, in Myers's view, because he looks around himself and sees a not very promising basis for a mass movement. He's right. There is indeed a quality of geeky isolation from reality, common sense, and the fullness of life that I see as a motif in [[atheism|atheist]] and Darwin activism alike.<ref>[http://www.evolutionnews.org/2013/04/in_seattle_pz_m070861.html in Seattle, PZ Myers Reflects Candidly on His Constituency]</ref>}}
YouTube atheist Dusty Smith says atheist nerds are driving away women from considering the possibility of becoming atheists and this is a very upsetting situation to him.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MIlTGmjbxE Atheism needs women]</ref> Dusty Smith also stated that the atheist community needs to be more "cool".<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MIlTGmjbxE Atheism needs women]</ref>
See also: [[Atheism and social/interpersonal intelligence|Atheism and social skills]]
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