Do you think there are a lot of people who avoid "nerdy things" because they're "nerdy"?

I thought this was supposed to be the whole women-in-STEM issue, though to be sure, there's more than plenty of subcultures, races etc. where the same thinking is encouraged for men.

That said, speaking of tricky, it sounds like a trick question (or uhm...) because quantum physics and relativity ARE tricky (and nerdy). It is said that only twelve people in the world have ever understood Einstein's theory of (general) relativity. While that is likely slightly urban legend, picking relativity and quantum physics as example isn't optimal, when people have this same attitude for so much of everyday science.