Do you live in a bubble? NPR quiz

Parent Cafe
1

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/do-you-live-in-a-bubble-a-quiz-2/

my score: 51

your score?

2

Thanks for sharing this. I got 40, which was expected for my demographics but higher than typical (i.e., has “made a point of getting out a lot”).

3

Closest to me: 42–100: A first-generation middle-class person with working-class parents and average television and movie going habits. Typical: 66.

I don’t watch TV or go to movies so apparently that gives me a thicker bubble? I don’t go to movies because I refuse to pay the ridiculous prices!

Grew up in a very “working class” (poor) neighborhood with two working class (one immigrant) parents.

I’d now consider myself lower middle or middle class. My income is on the lower middle end but we own a home in a middle to upper middle class neighborhood. We just happen to own one of the smallest houses (which is A-OK with us! We still get the school district if kids enter the picture.)

4

I scored 31.

5

This was fascinating - some of the questions that is. I got 40.

6

I got a 43. The waffle house question intrigued me. Around here (South) Millionares go to Waffle house for breakfast occasionally. College kids go after a night out as well.

7
  1. Low end gifted, grew up with not much money (too poor to take hot lunch, not eligible for free lunch). Atypical for even my area- outsider. Value education.
8

64, grew up the child of blue collar parents. Live in rural America here in the fly over zone. My political views are very different than most of the people I meet here.

9

35 here…I don’t watch TV and don’t eat in chain restaurants so I guess my score made sense. Fun.

10
  1. Interesting. Grew up in a working class town, parents were from working-class immigrant families and were first generation college educated - dad was an engineer, and mom a SAHM. I do have close friends with diverse political and religious views. I think that the main sources of my bubble are that I don't watch TV and I rarely eat out - I don't have time or money because my kid is applying to college. ;)

Closest to me: “A first-generation upper-middle-class person with middle-class parents. Typical: 33.”

11
  1. But I don't go to movies and I don't eat in chain restaurants.
12

40 because A second-generation (or more) upper-middle-class person who has made a point of getting out a lot.

Good thing I watch The Voice, adopted my kids (understand Cs), son is now evangelical and just married into evangelical family, worked retail, married and hang out with people voting for the other party, and lived in Detroit for a short time (don’t think most neighbors went to college, but I would never ask). My bubble really thinned out when I moved from MN to SE TX, and they didn’t even ask me about that.

13

54 - mostly because I grew up in small-town rural America. Like deb922, my political views are very different from those with whom I grew up.

14

I’m playing around with the quiz.

First I upped the number of years in a location with less than 10,000 - because I have spent part of every year at my grandparents’ homeplace. And added in the cigarette question, because I’ve been to parties other guests were smoking, just not right in front of me or the other old ladies. My score went up to 57.

Then I added in a few tv shows that I didn’t see during the current season, but as soon as they were available on-line. I have no objection to tv; we would just have to have a satellite dish which is too complicated for me to deal with. My score went up to 63.

All the movies I checked I saw on airplanes.

I’m more than second generation from an upper middle class background. We live in a heavily evangelical, rural, farming community. I go to those restaurants for lunch with my neighbors. I would have had many more points if Golden Corral was listed.

We also go to Europe every summer. I would have more points if I had answered yes to the bus/hitchhiking question. I’ve not done that in the US. I think maybe I live in several bubbles.

15

52, grew up in blue collar neighborhood and I am the only college educated family member for generations.

16

I scored a 26 even though my grad student stipend is more than my dad’s income when I was a kid (even adjusted for inflation). I feel like my score has more to do with the fact that I am a child of immigrants than anything to do with class. Of course, immigrants aren’t usually super integrated into mainstream American culture.

17

45! My parents were immigrants, both blue collar workers. As of my very first paycheck after college I was earning more than my father (which made him very happy.)

18

I got 31, and I am a first-generation upper-middle class person with middle class parents. I grew up in a city, and only lived in other than a city or suburb when in grad school.

19

27, “A first-generation upper-middle-class person with middle-class parents” is a fairly good description, though prior generations on one side were upper-class. I thought I’d be further into the bubble, but I guess we eat at Outback and Chili’s too much (kids get their choice in rotation).

20

I got 25. We rarely watch TV and most of those restaurant chains are not in our state. One of my grandparents was born in the US–the rest immigrated. Our folks were upper middle class and so are we.