![]() ![]() I’ve never eaten at an Outback, but I’ve been to Friday’s probably 10 times in the past year. I haven’t been fishing or hunting in the past 5 years, but I have been hiking, ATV-ing, camping, and chopping wood. I didn’t recognize the NASCAR driver, but I’ve always been an oddity in that I don’t watch sports at all. I haven’t seen the third transformers movie, but I did see the first two and haven’t had time to see the third yet. I haven’t purposely hung out with someone who was smoking in the past month, but I have several times in the past year, and not terribly long ago I used to smoke a pack a day. I don’t have any close friends who are evangelical christians, but I have several not-close friends who are, plus my mother and an aunt. I had to answer no to having worked in a factory, but I have worked grounds crew on a golf course, stockboy in a hardware store, and I spent a year as a steelworker torching and welding steel pipe. I agree with the other criticisms of the quiz- the questions are in many cases too specific to be useful: Maybe I should have kept count of my own answers. I scored 12/20 on the certificate, but between 13 and 16 at the bottom. I think they would get a richer cultural experience spending a semester in a small town outside the Northeast. The really elite private high schools nowadays have students spend a semester in France or Spain. Instead, it asked if you know any strong evangelicals. On religion, my understanding is that Murray claims that the upper classes are more church-loyal than the lower classes, but the quiz did not ask something related to that. You don’t want to say that the other 94 percent are living in the bubble. “Manufacturing production workers” was about 6 percent of the work force, last time I checked. ![]() Only a small minority of Americans have worked on a factory floor. Having said that, I thought some of the questions were type-casting and crude. If it weren’t for me, my friends would have nobody who disagrees with them. I also got a point for having a close friend who disagrees with me politically, but that’s because I’m the weirdo. I got a couple points for having worked in a factory, but that was in a summer job in college almost 40 years ago. I feel like the points I got were somewhat illegitimate. The highest possible score would be 20, which would make me a real representative of the common man. The lowest possible score is 0, which would be totally in the bubble. I guess whatever exact number I got, they classified it as between 5 and 8. My score was reported as “between 5 and 8,” which is weird, since the questions had yes or no answers. We’ve been discussing Charles Murray’s Coming Apart, and now there is a quiz you can take to find out if you are living in an elitist bubble.
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