Do you live in a bubble?

[Rain Man]

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/

[Mile High Mania]

Originally Posted by KC_Lee

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.

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...

[oldman]

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.

[WhiteWhale]

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.

[BucEyedPea]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

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 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.

[WhiteWhale]

Originally Posted by BucEyedPea

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.

[luv]

67

[Shaid]

52

[Shaid]

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.

[DJ's left nut]

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.

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by KChiefs1

I found the Jimmie Johnson question amusing.




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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.

[scho63]

54 for me

[Rasputin]

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.

[rockymtnchief]

Originally Posted by WhiteWhale

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 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.

[Canofbier]

Originally Posted by KC_Lee

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.

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

[mikeyis4dcats.]

53