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.Grandpa's Spells wrote: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.
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I just think it's boring to watch. Indy car is much more exciting.Blaidd Drwg wrote:Mickey O'neil wrote:"You got 69 points." I hate NASCAR racing. Now MTB and MX is a different story. I do like F1 as well.
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36. I've been to a movie theater twice since I moved to California in 2013.kreator wrote: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.
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.
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I think you misunderstand Murray's point completely. FWIW, you score as normal; you've also led an insulated life.Fuzzy Dunlop wrote: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.
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I do acknowledge that I have a homogenous group of friends.Turdacious wrote:I think you misunderstand Murray's point completely. FWIW, you score as normal; you've also led an insulated life.Fuzzy Dunlop wrote: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 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.
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Just curious, how is that the case for you?Fuzzy Dunlop wrote: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
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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.kreator wrote:Just curious, how is that the case for you?Fuzzy Dunlop wrote: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
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.
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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!
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Really Big Strong Guy: There are a plethora of psychopaths among us.
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Not.dead man walking wrote:you didn't mention nascar. how cool can you be?
Cool.
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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.
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i don't think i fit their model. So i got that going for me.
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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.powerlifter54 wrote: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.
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.
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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.Blaidd Drwg wrote:Not.dead man walking wrote:you didn't mention nascar. how cool can you be?
Cool.
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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.
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So, I'm not sure what the point of this is.
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To reveal latent narcissism.Kirk wrote:So, I'm not sure what the point of this is.
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6/10. I like movies.Herv100 wrote:I bet Spells has seen almost all of those movies
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