[amphibian]

http://www.pbs.org/n...ubble-a-quiz-2/

It's biased towards Americans, but the cross section of questions works well for those who've always lived there. Some of you outside the USA may be able to find equivalents or understand kinda what they are asking you.

I scored a 37. My best friend got 78, my mother scored 44, and best friend's significant other scored 5.

[Slow Ben]

65. Grew up in a rural middle class town.

Probably would have been higher if i watched more crappy tv and drank shitty beer.

[worry]

Yes I do, thanks for asking. Now onto the quiz!

[Kurt Montandon]

74, and it would've been a lot higher if they had listed TV shows I actually watch. TWD & Archer aren't exactly obscure.

[EmperorMagus]

amphibian, on 28 March 2016 - 02:13 AM, said:

http://www.pbs.org/n...ubble-a-quiz-2/

It's biased towards Americans, but the cross section of questions works well for those who've always lived there. Some of you outside the USA may be able to find equivalents or understand kinda what they are asking you.

I scored a 37. My best friend got 78, my mother scored 44, and best friend's significant other scored 5.

I scored a 4, but that's probably because I've never been to the U.S and lived in Iran for most of my life, which means that most of those questions were default "no" s for me.

[Mentalist]

Applied to Canada, scored 30. But I'm a first gen immigrant from upper middle class family.

[Andorion]

I don't get most of these questions. How are beer and fishing relevant? I get education, jobs, income, size of community etc

[Kurt Montandon]

Andorion, on 28 March 2016 - 02:37 AM, said:

I don't get most of these questions. How are beer and fishing relevant? I get education, jobs, income, size of community etc

You could click on "Why This Question," which explains the rationale ...

[Binder of Demons]

I got 39, but it was really hard to think of equivalencies for some of the questions, as someone who is from Ireland. So I'm not sure if it should have been higher or lower.

It is interesting to try and quantify how insulated our lives/lifestyles are. It would have been very interesting to see the results of a survey like this, pre and post economic boom in Ireland. And the reduction of college fees in the early 90's would have radically altered this too.
Very different to the USA though.

[worry]

Andorion, on 28 March 2016 - 02:37 AM, said:

I don't get most of these questions. How are beer and fishing relevant? I get education, jobs, income, size of community etc

That's the bubble in question.

I got a perfect score of 45.

[Una]

37, but I'm not sure it proves anything other than that I am not American.

[amphibian]

Andorion, on 28 March 2016 - 02:37 AM, said:

I don't get most of these questions. How are beer and fishing relevant? I get education, jobs, income, size of community etc

Rural areas tend to skew white and less wealthy (with many exceptions). So the cheaper beer makes sense, as does fishing a bunch for recreation and/or food. People of color drink cheaper beer, sure, but not in the numbers the rural white people do. Same with fishing.

[Andorion]

amphibian, on 28 March 2016 - 03:39 AM, said:

Andorion, on 28 March 2016 - 02:37 AM, said:

I don't get most of these questions. How are beer and fishing relevant? I get education, jobs, income, size of community etc

Rural areas tend to skew white and less wealthy (with many exceptions). So the cheaper beer makes sense, as does fishing a bunch for recreation and/or food. People of color drink cheaper beer, sure, but not in the numbers the rural white people do. Same with fishing.

Ah. I had no idea fishing had a racial line.

As for the beer, does the price depend on local taxes, or do beer companies have different prices in different areas


I got 17 but that's probably from not actually living in the US.

[Maark Abbott]

Oponn Relationship, on 28 March 2016 - 02:25 AM, said:

Yes I do, thanks for asking. Now onto the quiz!

[amphibian]

Andorion, on 28 March 2016 - 04:00 AM, said:

As for the beer, does the price depend on local taxes, or do beer companies have different prices in different areas

Price/availability is somewhat based on state by state regulation, but in general, beer isn't priced with huge variations across the country.

Bud Light is the most popular beer in USA for its cheapness AND its inoffensiveness. People will buy 30 of them at a time for a person and that'll be a day of very heavy paced drinking or two days of moderate paced drinking. It is not a great beer, but it works. The craft beers and the better mass produced beers will be more expensive. The worse mass produced beers will be cheaper, but most of the people buying those even cheaper/worse beers are the college crowd and the alcoholics (who mostly gravitate towards liquor or 40 oz malt liquors). In general, those who live in the cities buy more expensive mass produced beers/imports/craft beers.

I have always lived in a moderate to large city when I was in the US, but I have proudly stocked my fridge completely full with Bud Light/Keystone Light for heavy drinking days. I don't do it anymore due to not wanting to consume 2000 calories of liquid bread, but I done did it. I didn't buy Milwaukee's Best Lite more than a handful of times though - Beast is for the truly non-discriminating palate. That was for the days when I would get 2 30 packs for a weekend and still make it to class on Monday. Ugh. Stupid times.

[worry]

I knew the name Charles Murray sounded familiar: https://www.splcente.../charles-murray

[TheRetiredBridgeburner]

15, and I was doing a bit of mental switching for UK stuff. I always confuse quizzes like this though - it always scores me as very middle class with a middle class upbringing, which isn't the case.

[Gothos]

Uh, I just substituted american for polish and got a score of 33... which is kinda accurate I guess. Polish middle class probably doesn't mean the same as american middle class though.

[Gust Hubb]

24. Raised as a white middle class evangelical. Sadly.

[QuickTidal]

Those questions are ridiculous, and the quiz is bollocks. I took it and applied the Canadian equivalent and it doesn't even get close to me. It's like someone sat down and said "These are the things that make ME believe that someone ELSE (that I don't know) is living in a cultural bubble" = Science.

Which is not the case.