Quiz: how much of a 1% elite bubble do you live in?

[Anonymous]

Got a 37. Second generation upper middle class, but DH is from a more blue collar background. I think knowing Evangelicals and conservatives, eating at Outback and Applebees, and TV/Film pop culture knowledge bumped up my score.

[Anonymous]

btw, charles murray's theories on race & intelligence in "the bell curve" are controversial and questionable. this quiz should be taken with a grain of salt.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:33. Odd there's no "grew up middle class, still middle class" which is how I feel I am.

Same here. Scored 40.

[Anonymous]

50. Probably would've been higher if it were geared towards AAs. The movies, shows, and evangelical questions for example were geared towards a white audience. That said, I am middle class with working class parents, so still accurate.

[Anonymous]

24. Can anyone post the analysis/explanation?
It's not showing up on my device either....

[Anonymous]

I scored 30.

No where near the 1% and never will be.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:52. Grew up in a very different environment than the one I now live in.

Ditto, got a 54

Tritto. I'm proud of my hick roots and believe they created resilience. Am fish out of water now much of time in ward 3.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Holy cow, I scored a 4.

I'm totally out of touch.

I'm the 4. I served as an officer in the military and I worked in college as a waitress/bartender (jobs that make you hurt)....what the heck would I have scored without that???

Jeez. I'm still stunned, I guess.

But as some PPs pointed out, I'm 4th generation college educated, and my current HHI is over $500k/yr. So clearly whoever developed this onto something. But still....

[Anonymous]

15.

My parents were both the first in their families to go to college but they did well and we were raised upper middle class so it is a fairly accurate description. I spent a lot of time as a child with my grandparents and they were definitely blue collar workers. I think I scored so low because I really only watch home improvement television and rarely go to the movies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:50. Probably would've been higher if it were geared towards AAs. The movies, shows, and evangelical questions for example were geared towards a white audience. That said, I am middle class with working class parents, so still accurate.

Not sure I agree with that. Read the explanations.

[Anonymous]

Scored a 22. Interesting- thanks for posting.

[Anonymous]

31.

Probably should have been lower. I'm at least 2nd generation upper middle class (my parents are immigrants from another country where they're ancesters were definitely upper middle to rich class, but it's hard to compare with American upper middle/rich class). Many questions could have lowered my score, but for several years after college, I continued to live in the city where I went to college and to save money, I lived in a shared house in a not-so-good neighborhood. Many of the things that raised my score came from living there for those years.

Interesting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:50. Probably would've been higher if it were geared towards AAs. The movies, shows, and evangelical questions for example were geared towards a white audience. That said, I am middle class with working class parents, so still accurate.

Not sure I agree with that. Read the explanations.

I also disagree with your premise. The movies, shows and evangelical questions are based on census Nielson, census, and related data which is across the country and does not take race into account. There were all across-the-board most popular in their categories. In general the more wealthy AA's tend to be more like the more wealthy whites. There is greater diversity with the middle and lower classes. So essentially, the lower the score, the more closely AA and white respondants will score alike. The higher the score, the more likely there will be a bigger diversity between races.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:24. Can anyone post the analysis/explanation?
It's not showing up on my device either....

Scoring

You got 31 points.

See below for scores Charles Murray would expect you to get based on the following descriptions. Note that there are ranges of possible scores for categories and some overlap. In the graphic, your score is denoted by the horizontal black line, and typical scores for each range are marked with gray lines. The possible overlap is represented by the blue bars.

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

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.

[Anonymous]

39: first generation upper-middle-class with middle class parents.