This just shows how out of touch I am with this whole "nerd" phenom...
When I saw "Data," I immediately thought of Brent Spiner in Star Trek: TNG and couldn't for the life of me understand how he could possibly be considered a nerd. And, even allowing for that unlikely classification, I didn't see how he could possibly lose in any kind of matchup.
He's got a positronic brain and phasers, for Asimov's sake.