Do you live in a bubble?
 

Are you insulated from the working class's mainstream culture in thought and history? Let's see who we have here.

I got a 45, which seems about right in the summary. I figured my score would be higher given where I grew up. If I changed one answer about my father's job, it would rise to 52 (he was a manager, but in very blue collar jobs). However, I answered the questions strictly.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-s...bble-a-quiz-2/

I scored a 64

71.

Probably would be higher but I got to say NO to living in poverty as an adult, just as a child.

68


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I scored a 62. Probably based on my military experience

I'm thinking that you guys are beating me out on the force of buying pickups and beer and going fishing. Those questions probably bubblefied me.

As the 2016 election proved, no one cares about polls, let alone, answers them honestly

Yeah I've owned a truck & fished.



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I found the Jimmie Johnson question amusing.




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74

I knew it. I mean, come on. I've been to Branson. How bubblefied can I be?

70

70

61. Because I farm in BFE. And my parents farmed in BFE in te 90s (poverty)

Interesting quiz, I scored a 18. I'm guessing that having been to Branson amounts to about half of that. I'm bougie as ****.

51. Think I got hit hard because I don't watch any of the stupid TV shows and haven't seen any of the stupid movies or eat at any of the lame restaurants they listed.

48

I drove through Branson a couple weeks ago so I counted that as visiting Branson.

This. The joints they listed to eat... Gross

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I go to work from 3am to 3pm or 5pm or 7pm I never know if I'm going get off on time. I guess that's why they call me the working man?

I bet Donger scored between 1-20

if not 0

Scored a 20 and also suspect a big chunk of that was from having been to Branson before.

45

I got an 85.

52 for me, and I think I fell short in the same areas as you

56

63, mostly from growing up in rural Mo. I'm white collar as hell now.

68

So I guess this is the liberal elite trying to figure out where they went wrong?


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I scored 50

Scoring

You got 50 points.

The higher your score, the thinner your bubble. The lower, the more insulated you might be from mainstream American culture.

See below for scores Charles Murray would expect you to get based on the following descriptions.

48–99: A lifelong resident of a working-class neighborhood with average television and movie going habits. Typical: 77.

42–100: A first-generation middle-class person with working-class parents and average television and movie going habits. Typical: 66.

11–80: A first-generation upper-middle-class person with middle-class parents. Typical: 33.

0–43: A second-generation (or more) upper-middle-class person who has made a point of getting out a lot. Typical: 9.

0–20: A second-generation (or more) upper-middle-class person with the television and movie going habits of the upper middle class. Typical: 2.

Not sure what that is supposed to tell me, but I am a country hick. I really dont fit any of the descriptions they post here.

Rain man can i do the quiz tomorrow i just got off of work and want to check out hot chicks for a few before bed.

I got 57. I have no idea what this even means because I don't understand the scoring criteria. What is "the working class's mainstream culture in thought and history"?

Rainman, I am disappoint.

Also please don't burst my bubble.

Me too.




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Hit my birth year of 71, clearly a xenophobic deplorable... i'm sorry guys

It would be more telling to correlate these scores with age.

I like to take marketing surveys s and troll them. For instance. I took one about financial institutions, and said that a financial institution I wold like to use (but haven't) is Joseph A Bank.

I got an 81.

58

62, but that's mainly from my midwest upbringing. I don't really associate with your types much anymore.

54

Out of those three categories, I checked one box for a movie I'd seen.

55, I worked blue collar jobs for most of my early adult life, went back to college and now work a white collar job.

I own a truck and live in a working class neighborhood. All of my neighbors are hard working folks who are friendly and decent folks. We have a mixture of white, black and Hispanic families living together.

I find this quiz / poll incredibly condescending and makes some extreme generalizations as to who does what.

55

:clap:

I did chuckle at knowing 'Jimmie Johnson' and do you and your wife go fishing? Or, have you been in a parade not aligned to LGBTQ or other...

I got a 36. But WTF is with the scoring? If you got a 43, you could be a 2nd gen upper-middle class, a 1st gen upper-middle-class, or a 1st gen middle class. That's a lot of variance.

I feel like the end results were weighted too much by which TV shows you choose to watch and how much you watch them along with which low rent restaurants you choose eat at and how often.

I don't really think watching the big bang theory has anything do with the working class. I don't think anyone who writes for that show knows what the working class even is.

My life has improved, but I'll never forget where I come from. I had my first job when I was 12. Seems it's not uncommon for kids to reach double that age before getting to work.

The working class is not a collective you can just put all in one box. The working class is diverse.

You know... ACTUAL diversity. Not that mandated crap political and social elites force on themselves because they're discriminatory and need quotas.

I know these are just for fun. But coming from PBS/Charles Murray ( who is not a libertarian as PBS falsely claims) I wouldn't put any stock in it.

I got the impression from this quiz that PBS doesn't know what working class refers to.

They seem to think it means 'people who watch a lot of TV and movies and never prepare their own food'

It only demonstrates the disconnect.

67

52

For Branson, I've never been there but when I saw the answer I knew what it was, same for Richard Branson. I know who he is but never would have thought of it unless I saw his name. I just said I didn't know what Branson was as it seemed the fairest response.

Odd.

I scored 49 on my first attempt. I took it again because I wanted to see what would happen if I changed 2 fringe questions and ended up at a 54.

The two answers I changed were "Has your family's breadwinner ever been in a non-managerial, non-prestige position". My parents had gotten to at least middle management by the time I was 8ish so I answered no the first time; I changed it to yes the second time because technically I did spend my first several years living with parents in non-managerial positions. They were both college educated but were extremely young when I was born so it took them some time to work up the ranks. I figured my first answer was keeping with the 'spirit' of the question, my second with the 'letter' of it.

And the television question I first said I watched none of them regularly but my wife does record Modern Family and on occasion I'll watch it with her. I can name probably 80% of the characters so I think that means I watch it regularly enough to say yes.

Seems a little higher than I figured it would be.

Ha....looks like that one tripped me up.

I thought they both spelled it the same way so my response was "who came to mind first". I watched "The U" a few weeks ago so he was just the first person I thought of there.

I think rather to determine if you live in a bubble they should be asking questions to quantify if you are a redneck, city dweller, muggle, wizard, witch, blue color working man, born with a silver spoon in mouth, won the lottery, a hobbit, gay, pimp, whore, straight, homophobic, risk seeker aka dare devil, down with midgets, are a midget, racist, know about Rex Ryan, farmer, dancer, hunter, Fisherman, stock broker, movie producer/actor, doctor, layer, law enforcer, fireman, military person, politician or free bird, hippie, rock star, country, rapper, a crapper, a dog owner, a cat owner, any kind of pet owner, a whistle blower, a drug dealer/user, a thug aka Raiders fan rapist, evangelist, anthologist, a screamer, a lover, a fighter, is and idiot.



I'm sure there are more genre if I missed any categories but I think they could narrow it down some so we can figure out what kind of person we are and not generalize if we live in a bubble out of 100 points.

I didn't check any of the tv shows or places to eat. I did check one movie and still got a 74. I don't know why I ended up so high.

You're offended, eh? Maybe your score should have been even closer to mine! :hmmm:

53

42

66.
Fishing and trucks expanding my bubble.
I didn't know any of the military insignia.

55

53, but it's too vague and it barely applies to me at all.

For example, it's identifying me as growing up "blue collar-middle class". And while that's somewhat true, i'm not sure that you'd count growing up homeless as "blue collar-middle class". So while yes, my father (breadwinner LMAO) worked a blue collar job, i still lived on a river bed around countless other homeless people. That's not growing up "Blue collar-Middle class".

12, Do you know what Ed Gein said about living in a bubble?

Maitre d' at Canal Bar ?

Fiddy-five.
Haven't been fishing in a long while; have been to Branson.

65. Is that good? My bubble qualifies for Medicare

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61

I quit after the first question. I have no idea how many of my neighbors have a college degree. I live in the South so I would assume most of them don't, but I can't be certain.

I got an 88, po white trash

55. I have never bought a pick up nor have I been to Branson also I haven't been fishing in 10+ years.

49. Might have been higher if I'd seen any of those movies or TV shows.

There was a lot of the quiz that falls into a lot of grey area for me. I've technically been fishing in the past 5 years, but it was just keeping my dad company on a boat for a couple hours (and I didn't catch anything). I haven't worn a uniform "since leaving school," but I worked retail for 6 years during college, but apparently that doesn't count?

Meh - whatever. 45 sounds about right regardless. I grew up in a small town in southern Kansas, but I haven't lived in a small town for a decade and don't plan on ever going back.

I checked no boxes for TV and one box for movies. Also there were only two places on the food list I checked. One was Denny's. I can't remember the other one. I think they combined for five visits in the last year. I got an 81.

Holy shit! What are you doing on ChiefsPlanet?



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64

True. I've been fishing twice in the last few years and both times were on fishing charters in the Keys...probably not what their question was targeting.

I got a 74. What do I win?