Poll: The Great British class calculator

[markyb]

Result: the class group you most closely match is:
Established middle class

 

[.:MBK:.]

Peasant, apparently choosing to have to no social life makes me scum

 

[atpbx]

My wife and I are apparently new affluent workers.

 

[Martynt74]

"Technical Middle Class" for me. Wouldn't say it was a million miles off in the description either.

 

[PlacidCasual]

Elite

 

[megakid]

Established Middle Class.

 

[DaleTheWhale]

Emergant Service Workers

"This group are young and often found in urban areas."

Yeah sounds about right

 

[ci_newman]

"Technical Middle Class" for me. Wouldn't say it was a million miles off in the description either.

Same for me

 

[Kosmiche]

I do not see the option 'Considerably Richer than Yew'

I chose Elite.

 

[randomshenans]

I came out as Elite, but I think as has been said that this is linked mostly to money. My property isn't worth a mint, but earn a good wage and socialise with varying professions, apparently makes me elite. Which I obviously already knew.

 

[neodude]

Established Middle Class

Whatever that means.

 

[Supercow]

Elite :/
Dont even own a property, nor go to Ballet/jazz/all the snooty stuff. Must be based on savings, which isn't an awful lot either.

 

[Scougar]

Ridiculous test: Emergent service worker.

I wouldn't even say the questions were representative. Given I'm highly technically qualified it's a total joke.

For example: I don't own my own house, because I'm between countries and having to rent two properties (hence I'm broke, so can't go an socialise with the people I normally would etc...)

 

[robfosters]

New affluent worker.

I propose a ban hammer for the peasants. All those in favour say aye?

 

[Hatter The Mad]

Ridiculous test: Emergent service worker.

I wouldn't even say the questions were representative. Given I'm highly technically qualified it's a total joke.

Why is it a total joke? It sounds quite fitting. These questions were derived from a much more detailed test conducted on 160,000. Analysis found that, for example, asking the professions of your associates was a more accurate indicator of class than asking what you do... and so on. It's not perfect but it is a reasonable model.

Established Middle Class

Whatever that means.

The OP and the website says what it means quite clearly.

 

[Hatter The Mad]

By the way, does everyone realise that if you live with your parents, you're not supposed to use their income as your 'household'? By household it means you and at most your partner.

 

[Hatter The Mad]

So the survey greys out rentals over £125k.

Plus the social aspects will score you highly if you go to ballet, operas and other boring rubbish farts do.

Retarded and flawed.

It isn't, see above. If you'd have looked into the test, you'd see that there is not one 'cultural' score, but two: emerging cultural activities and classical highbrow ('boring rubbish farts'). Different things add to each and each gives increasingly probability to one of the classifications, based on a trained model from the wider study.

 

[Efour]

By the way, does everyone realise that if you live with your parents, you're not supposed to use their income as your 'household'? By household it means you and at most your partner.

as 2/3rds of this forum are students and plebs i don't think this test would have gone too far here without it.

I think the owning of property is a very British concept but one we still very much base our perceptions on.

 

['Harry]

Emergent service worker.

What a load of ****.

Nobody here is elite, That's just ridiculous. Richard Branson is elite. Being a wage slave makes everyone here middle or below.

 

[yipyipboo]

Established Middle Class :/