Do You Live In A Bubble?

[Turdacious]

It's a little weird that people who go to the same 6 restaurants and watch the same 6 shows don't live in a bubble.

TV and restaurants aren't weighted very highly. I scored in the high seventies, don't watch any of those shows, and went to Waffle House a handful of times while traveling.

[Thud]

25, and feeling a little prissy for it.

[Mickey O'neil]

"You got 69 points." I hate NASCAR racing. Now MTB and MX is a different story. I do like F1 as well.

How dare you.

If you can't appreciate NASCAR, you just don't like racing. It's pure distilled strategy with loads of cheating. It's the most American of Motorsports because it's rooted in treachery. What's not to love?

I just think it's boring to watch. Indy car is much more exciting.

[Fuzzy Dunlop]

43. It says I have average TV and movie habits, which isn't really accurate since I don't watch TV and I've only seen 3 movies this year which is a lot for me.

36. I've been to a movie theater twice since I moved to California in 2013.

No idea how this thing works, I answered "no" or checked nothing for a lot of the questions. It would seem to make assumptions that Evangelicals and their friends, poor people who eat at Applebee's and such live in a bubble whereas I thought it would assume that rich people were more bubbly.

EDIT; disregard comments above. was thinking that higher score meant more insulated and it is the oppposite.

I'm with the comment above on the fact that people who eat at chain restaurants, go to church, spend their time watching TV and movies, etc are much more insulated than I am. I do however, think that 90+% of my interaction is with people who would be considered rich and white by the majority of the country.

[Turdacious]

EDIT; disregard comments above. was thinking that higher score meant more insulated and it is the oppposite.

I'm with the comment above on the fact that people who eat at chain restaurants, go to church, spend their time watching TV and movies, etc are much more insulated than I am. I do however, think that 90+% of my interaction is with people who would be considered rich and white by the majority of the country.

I think you misunderstand Murray's point completely. FWIW, you score as normal; you've also led an insulated life.

[Fuzzy Dunlop]

EDIT; disregard comments above. was thinking that higher score meant more insulated and it is the oppposite.

I'm with the comment above on the fact that people who eat at chain restaurants, go to church, spend their time watching TV and movies, etc are much more insulated than I am. I do however, think that 90+% of my interaction is with people who would be considered rich and white by the majority of the country.

I think you misunderstand Murray's point completely. FWIW, you score as normal; you've also led an insulated life.

I do acknowledge that I have a homogenous group of friends.

I didn't read his point, I just took the quiz and was trying to hash out how it was scoring. \People who eat at Applebees and head to the movies in flyover Evangelical land and then go fishin on Sunday's (I would posit) lead much more insulated lives than mine. Though it would seem they would have scored higher since I answered negatively to all those questions. Maybe I am misunderstanding or maybe answering those questions in the affirmative would have lowered my score even more.

[kreator]

I do however, think that 90+% of my interaction is with people who would be considered rich and white by the majority of the country

Just curious, how is that the case for you?

[Fuzzy Dunlop]

I do however, think that 90+% of my interaction is with people who would be considered rich and white by the majority of the country

Just curious, how is that the case for you?

Well maybe not interact with (like people at the coffee shop or whatever) , but most of the people i have a social or working relationship with are white and have a similar economic status as I do. My friends are work colleagues of my wife or I, college buddies, or lifelong friends I went to HS with. I meet guys mountain biking but MTBs are expensive and its a super white hobby. Some of these guys are probably not rich per se, but they sure as fuck aren't poor in the grand scheme of things.

To think more about this, and this is kind of weird, and indicative of the bubble I'm realizing i live in... I honestly could go weeks (months? ) without speaking to a black or latino person that doesn't work in the service industry. I do interact with a lot of Asians for work.

[Mickey O'neil]

Y'all keep talking about the chain restaurants, going to the movies and such, but I scored relatively high and I can't remember the last time I went out to eat at a chain restaurant. I go to the movies on occasion, and while I go to church, I am not particularly religious. I grew up poor in a small town but always strived for more. My best friends were white, but since I played sports and lived in the poorer section of town I had a lot of black friends as well. I have always had a core group of friends but I also "floated" or was cool with people from all social groups, ie. the preps, jocks, blacks, rednecks, nerds, etc. It's still the same way today. I hang out with engineers all day but still talk to black people and Mexican people several times a week.

And as you all know, I mountain bike quite a bit, but I don't think I fit in with the stereotypical "white" mountain biker that Fuzzy referenced. I will mountain bike, fish, split wood and do carpentry and other projects around the house and work on my truck all in the same weekend.

I am probably the coolest person y'all would ever meet. Hahaha!

[dead man walking]

you didn't mention nascar. how cool can you be?

[Blaidd Drwg]

you didn't mention nascar. how cool can you be?

Not.
Cool.
At.
All.

Plus moutnbikeing is for froots.

I thought for sure I'd end up dead in the middle....but it's not all chain restaurants and tv, there's a lot in there about income growing up, working real jobs etc.

[powerlifter54]

Not doing the quiz, but do i try hard to live in my bubble. if i am not going to Home Depot, a church function, an occasional movie 25 mins away, or to eat with some old friends, i prefer to stay home when not working. Since i don't compete anymore i don't need training partners. But i don't fish or hunt or watch Nascar. Rarely watch Fox news. Or the NBA or March madness or even much hockey or baseball until the playoffs. Grew up lower middle class surrounded by working white shlubs. Hit a lot of random influences on food, training, politics, and math/science.

i don't think i fit their model. So i got that going for me.

[Blaidd Drwg]

Not doing the quiz, but do i try hard to live in my bubble. if i am not going to Home Depot, a church function, an occasional movie 25 mins away, or to eat with some old friends, i prefer to stay home when not working. Since i don't compete anymore i don't need training partners. But i don't fish or hunt or watch Nascar. Rarely watch Fox news. Or the NBA or March madness or even much hockey or baseball until the playoffs. Grew up lower middle class surrounded by working white shlubs. Hit a lot of random influences on food, training, politics, and math/science.

i don't think i fit their model. So i got that going for me.

Raises the question of who's bubble are we talking about. It's a PBS based inquiry so It's targeting people who are probably disconnected from the way MUCH of America lives. Suburban, church going, fast food-chain, lots of network TV, know or associate with lower middle to lower classes, have served in the Mil or had a job with a uniform.

It''s probably as much a test if you are from the left coast and live in a big white rich city. No one could reasonably argue that the bubble of the coast and the bubble of Uh'Merka aren't similarly insulated from large doses of reality. Just like I don't think you really understand the third world until you've traveled in one as a noncombatant. Similarly you don't really understand the nature of conflict between the third world cultures and first world cultures until you've been involved in one of those.

[Turdacious]

It's a Charles Murray based quiz (he's the guy who co-wrote The Bell Curve)-- he's not a favorite of the stereotypical PBS crowd. I found that clicking on the 'why' below each group of questions gave a pretty good reason for his logic.

[Mickey O'neil]

you didn't mention nascar. how cool can you be?

Not.
Cool.
At.
All.

Plus moutnbikeing is for froots.

I thought for sure I'd end up dead in the middle....but it's not all chain restaurants and tv, there's a lot in there about income growing up, working real jobs etc.

This was the big difference for me as far as my scoring. Where I grew up, all the different types of jobs I had, raised by divorced mother, small town, worked a lot of summers in tobacco on my uncle's farm (worked with a lot of mexicans) as well as a lot of other blue collar type work, playing a lot of pickup ball "in the hood" where I was the only white kid, etc.

[DrDonkeyLove]

This test has me thinking about the bubbles we all live in and the difference in resiliency and unity of e pluribus unum vs. e pluribus pluribus (if that's really Latin). I worked hard to unapologetically live in the heart of Whitelandia. I regret that I have no black, Hispanic, or Asian friends at this point in time. Hell, my only gay "friend" is online (Spells).

[Bobby]

39

[Herv100]

I bet Spells has seen almost all of those movies

[Gene]

27. Most be a Principal Component Analysis thing.

[Kirk]

Yeah, I scored a 21 but have a Chilean wife; have played in a salsa/merengue band with some puerto ricans; work with/daily interact with bunches of chinese, indians, and koreans; ride dirt bikes with lots of blue collar guys (many white collar too); live in a blue collar area; etc.

So, I'm not sure what the point of this is.

[Blaidd Drwg]

So, I'm not sure what the point of this is.

To reveal latent narcissism.

[Grandpa's Spells]

I bet Spells has seen almost all of those movies

6/10. I like movies.