The Great British Class Calculator...

[uncleglen]

Having been born and brought up in the sound of the bells of St Mary-le-Bow (although they weren't sounding at the time!), thanks to the great Mrs T, I am 'Elite'.

[Louisa]

What happens if you visit pie 'n mash shops, attend the opera, and have an accountant as a good friend?

Louisa.

[*Bob*]

Absolutely nothing

[Louisa]

I'd love to know the breakdown of the entire population of ED post-gentrification. I would imagine, most wouldn't be traditional middle class because they have money, and we all know the poor but supposedly cultured move to ED cos they can't afford Clapham and Islington hehe

Louisa.

[red devil]

Louisa Wrote:

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> What happens if you visit pie 'n mash shops,

> attend the opera, and have an accountant as a good

> friend?

You're shipped out to Singapore...

[ClareC]

I wondered how long it would take before a thread was started on this :)

I'm tempted to do the long test to see if its more accurate!

[Sue]

According to the short test I'm a New Affluent Worker

What a load of bollocks!

Nice to be suddenly labelled as young though :))

[Otta]

I took the young thing to mean that I have failed to move on in the last 10 years :-S

[Sue]

:))

I just ploughed through the full survey (before anybody says the obvious, I'mlaid up in bed with a bug :)) )

Much to my disappointment it shed no further light, just gave me scores for the three separate dimensions and told me the survey results would be published in 2011!!!

Oh and it kindly creates for you a coat of arms :) )

[BB100]

Established middle class! Not bad for the daughter of a dyslexic single-parent hairdresser. Although mother did come out as Procariat - even 100K+ in the bank, visiting stately homes and knowing a teacher couldn't move her up.

[Jah Lush]

Traditional working class me. Hmmm... my old dad used to say we were lower middle but I couldn't give a fuck really. I mix well with all types. It's all a load of bollocks and bollocks to it all.

[BrandNewGuy]

Established middle class - so I get to patronise Ronnie Corbett, right...?

[Jeremy]

Jah Lush Wrote:

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> It's all a load of bollocks and bollocks to it all.

That does kind of sum it up. The whole thing is pretty much meaningless.

[Louisa]

Jane Hill when pressed by Matthew Amroliwala on BBC News 24 said she was " quite high up the scale" when she took the test. Maybe she lives in ED too?

Louisa.

[Sue]

But BNG the downside is you get to be patronised by John Cleese

.....

[seemster]

I think I did the wrong one - "class test" turned up the 2011 BBC test, apparently I needed to search "class calculator." Off to do that now...

[tarafitness]

Apparently I'm 'Elite', despite not going to private school... or university for that matter!

what's the 'long test', does anyone have a link? This one seems somewhat flawed!

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Well bugger me, I'm precariat. Didn't take into account I'm a huge snob, can finish the Telegraph crossword, socialise with physicians and surgeons and horribly high-up civil servants and listen to TMS.

*passes hat round*

[uncleglen]

Deep down I knew I was 'Elite' because at every family party the massive bowl of jellied eels that everyone tucked into just made me want to throw up!

[Sue]

tarafitness Wrote:

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> what's the 'long test', does anyone have a link?

> This one seems somewhat flawed!

Xxxxx

I don't know how to copy and paste on my phone, blush, but if you google BBC Great British Class

Calculator and possibly add Lab UK you should get to it.

You have to sign in or register on the BBC site first which is a fairly lengthy process.

Also the link to the full survey is not that obvious.

[aquarius moon]

Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote:

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> Well bugger me, I'm precariat. Didn't take into

> account I'm a huge snob, can finish the Telegraph

> crossword, socialise with physicians and surgeons

> and horribly high-up civil servants and listen to

> TMS.

>

> *passes hat round*

I'm precariat too!

I only listen to indie music & spend most of my time on Facebook.

I only know cleaners & shop assistants,

apart from all the accountants, teachers, lawyers, brain surgeons etc. etc. that I converse with on here.

Does that count?

Maybe it will move me up to the next level!

[Huguenot]

It's a bit confusing.

The 'long' test was the one used to create the 7 classes, it's from 2011

It gave each respondent a percentage score in terms of economic, social and cultural activation.

These results were analysed, and the outcome was 7 clusters of individuals which gave rise to the broad social groupings.

If you want to imagine it visually, then first think of a normal line graph of results whe you see peaks and troughs. Where lots of people are very similar (a peak) this would be called a social group.

However, this study had three different criteria so it was 3D (like a landscape) and and the clusters were 'hills' rather than flat peaks.

It demonstrated 7 particular 'hills' which were classed as the social groups in the survey.

For example there was a clear 'middle class' group in terms of social and economic similarity. However, because there was a third criteria 'culture' it was clear that some of these middle classes were highly culturally activated and some not. So these were split into two different groups - the traditional and technical middle classes.

The 'short' test was a very simple way to see which of these hills you are nearest to, and hence your social group.

There's no need to do the long test.

[BrandNewGuy]

Sue Wrote:

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> But BNG the downside is you get to be patronised

> by John Cleese

> .....

:-)

Oh well, back to net-curtain twitching and polishing the Jag...

[Cassius]

Mmmm - downsized house so have smaller house but far more savings - know variety of people but ticked all boxes in social apart from Twitter/Facebook, listen to hip/hop and play video games, but I am traditional working class (even though I don't work!) The Beggars Opera anyone!

[numbers]

Agree with jah. Loada bollocks and bollocks to it all.

Cringing when I see people post their category on Facebook. Only the British eh!