"Students Use Sport to Hide Brains"

From Australia:

Young Australians are hiding their academic talents and feigning an interest in sport to avoid being ostracised by their peers, researchers have found.

"If you're academically gifted and inept at sport, you are seen as a double nerd," said Miraca Gross, of the University of New South Wales. Since 1983 she has tracked 60 exceptionally gifted students and documented their study, work and social lives. Many such pupils sacrificed their school results to gain acceptance.

Great, now there's a name for it.

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