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Title: Opinion on Charles Murray Bubble test.
Post by: Skm1091 on April 30, 2014, 03:30:29 PM
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/white-educated-and-wealthy-congratulations-you-live-in-a-bubble/

What are your opinions
Title: Re: Opinion on Charles Murray Bubble test.
Post by: MrBogosity on April 30, 2014, 03:38:04 PM
I call bullshit:

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

We were NEVER upper-middle-class! And nowadays I struggle just to stay ahead of the bills. So what, I'm insulated because I don't watch American Idol???

(And that bit about how the marching band doesn't count kind of pissed me off...)
Title: Re: Opinion on Charles Murray Bubble test.
Post by: Skm1091 on April 30, 2014, 03:55:08 PM
Quote from: MrBogosity on April 30, 2014, 03:38:04 PM
I call bullshit:

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

We were NEVER upper-middle-class! And nowadays I struggle just to stay ahead of the bills. So what, I'm insulated because I don't watch American Idol???

(And that bit about how the marching band doesn't count kind of pissed me off...)

This test seems somewhat bias against urbanites. Most people in big cities like New York, San Fransisco, Los Angeles, Seattle etc will not be driving pick up trucks, they would be riding sedans or taking public transportation
Title: Re: Opinion on Charles Murray Bubble test.
Post by: Travis Retriever on April 30, 2014, 04:01:26 PM
Quote from: Skm1091 on April 30, 2014, 03:30:29 PM
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/white-educated-and-wealthy-congratulations-you-live-in-a-bubble/

What are your opinions
Now if only they counted the ones in government...
Title: Re: Opinion on Charles Murray Bubble test.
Post by: MrBogosity on April 30, 2014, 05:05:52 PM
Quote from: Skm1091 on April 30, 2014, 03:55:08 PM
This test seems somewhat bias against urbanites. Most people in big cities like New York, San Fransisco, Los Angeles, Seattle etc will not be driving pick up trucks, they would be riding sedans or taking public transportation

And plenty of millionaires ride pickup trucks. One of the fascinating things from The Millionaire Mind or The Millionaire Next door (those two books kind of blend together for me, so I can't remember what was in which book).
Title: Re: Opinion on Charles Murray Bubble test.
Post by: dallen68 on April 30, 2014, 05:18:45 PM
I didn't read the post (yet) cited in8 the OP, but I make about $46,000 a year, and I have like $ 80=125 a month, after my obligations to spend on "myself". Unlike Shane, I don't have a wife, an autistic child, and (possibly) other children to worry about. And WTF is wrong with pickups? If they (meaning Ford, Chevy, Nissan) come up with one that gets a reasonable gas mileage and *Isn't* this huge thing that I have to swing wide into the parking spot, I may consider it.
Title: Re: Opinion on Charles Murray Bubble test.
Post by: MrBogosity on April 30, 2014, 06:50:48 PM
Quote from: dallen68 on April 30, 2014, 05:18:45 PM
I didn't read the post (yet) cited in8 the OP, but I make about $46,000 a year, and I have like $ 80=125 a month, after my obligations to spend on "myself". Unlike Shane, I don't have a wife, an autistic child, and (possibly) other children to worry about. And WTF is wrong with pickups? If they (meaning Ford, Chevy, Nissan) come up with one that gets a reasonable gas mileage and *Isn't* this huge thing that I have to swing wide into the parking spot, I may consider it.

Toyota has some smaller ones that are pretty nice.
Title: Re: Opinion on Charles Murray Bubble test.
Post by: MrBogosity on April 30, 2014, 06:58:25 PM
Actually, thinking back over the questions (digs at marching band, chess club, etc.), I think I've sussed out his agenda:

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Title: Re: Opinion on Charles Murray Bubble test.
Post by: Travis Retriever on April 30, 2014, 07:09:38 PM
Quote from: MrBogosity on April 30, 2014, 06:58:25 PM
Actually, thinking back over the questions (digs at marching band, chess club, etc.), I think I've sussed out his agenda:

[yt]gZEdDMQZaCU[/yt]
:D LOL
Title: Re: Opinion on Charles Murray Bubble test.
Post by: Skm1091 on April 30, 2014, 07:15:31 PM
Quote from: MrBogosity on April 30, 2014, 06:58:25 PM
Actually, thinking back over the questions (digs at marching band, chess club, etc.), I think I've sussed out his agenda:

[yt]gZEdDMQZaCU[/yt]

NEEEERRRRDS!
Title: Re: Opinion on Charles Murray Bubble test.
Post by: Travis Retriever on April 30, 2014, 07:16:39 PM
Quote from: MrBogosity on April 30, 2014, 03:38:04 PM
I call bullshit:

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

We were NEVER upper-middle-class! And nowadays I struggle just to stay ahead of the bills. So what, I'm insulated because I don't watch American Idol???

(And that bit about how the marching band doesn't count kind of pissed me off...)
I got a score of 40, putting me in that range...I don't yet have a job and my family is working class...More of this "social class is a permanent and real thing, etc" bullshit I was spoonfed in sociology class.  Fucktards.  Ironic that by their definition, all politicians are about as "American" as Pluto, yet I don't see a single word about them...Nor do I see it on the ivory tower sociologists who no doubt made that shit-stain of a 'quiz.'
Title: Re: Opinion on Charles Murray Bubble test.
Post by: Skm1091 on April 30, 2014, 11:18:15 PM
Quote from: Travis Retriever on April 30, 2014, 07:16:39 PM
I got a score of 40, putting me in that range...I don't yet have a job and my family is working class...More of this "social class is a permanent and real thing, etc" bullshit I was spoonfed in sociology class.  Fucktards.  Ironic that by their definition, all politicians are about as "American" as Pluto, yet I don't see a single word about them...Nor do I see it on the ivory tower sociologists who no doubt made that shit-stain of a 'quiz.'

I somehow got 2
Title: Re: Opinion on Charles Murray Bubble test.
Post by: Ibrahim90 on May 01, 2014, 02:17:22 AM
scored 52: it's extremely inaccurate in its assessment, and some of the questions make little sense--explanations and all.