Here's a snippet from the book "Failing at Fairness" in which the conversation between Ralph Keyes and Nora Ephron is talked about. She's telling how much more popular she became, when she stopped raising her hand or even acting like she was smart.

I love Nora Ephron for saving my senior year, making it far less of a hell than my other school years had been. I still never had a date. I still didn't get asked to the prom. But at least I was no longer verbally tormented.