BS (Score 1)

This article is very typical of the nerds way of blaming their problems on others. A nerd without his smarts does not end up in the popular group but the loser group (the other D group in the high school). Also while the A group (football players, cheerleaders) may not be all that intelligent, the B group (leadership crew) usually end up going to private schools (Ivy Leagues, Stanford) that rival the schools the nerds go to (MIT, UC Berkeley). So the correlation between smarts and popularity does not exist. What does the popular crew from the unpopular crew is self confidence. Nerds in general tell them selves that they don't fit in, and end up fulfilling their self told prophecies. They in fact give up in trying to be "normal" that they let there physical appearance go to hell and stop trying to be friendly. But, because the talk themselves into believing that they are smarter than the rest, their subconscious mind learns that and they end up doing well in the real world (except with woman of course).