BBC Great British Class Survey

You scored 24/100 for economic capital.
Your financial resources are lower than the average person in the UK.

You scored 50/100 for social capital.
Your social network is about the same as the average person in the UK.

You scored 20/100 for cultural capital.
Your range of cultural interests is narrower than the average person in the UK.

Here's my coat of arms:
http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/2530/imageuploadimagevk1.gif

Ahahahaha

if only I could turn this mythical economic capital into, y'know, actual money.

You scored 64/100 for economic capital.
You scored 70/100 for social capital.
You scored 90/100 for cultural capital.

https://static.bbc.co.uk/labuk/experiments/class/img/emblem/card_socialhigh_culturehigh.png

22/100 economic
100/100 social
100/100 cultural

i know ppl with lots of different jobs! i am pretty cool.

like the dining ones! WHERE IS "TURKISH" OR "KOREAN"

yeah this got me

also where were bbc 4, more 4, radio 3 and 1extra, no representation for my interest ;_;

50/60/70

but i'm american and didn't know how to answer some of the questions (mostly the media ones). pretty sure that 50 would have skewed higher if i'd answered as a physician

tom, the image seems to come in several different parts so you need to screenshot it if you want it all to come out.

My image is not that different from emily's.

Top left:

\m/ \m/

I realise that now emily, but actually I quite like the idea of being a blank slate

quite liked the music test, results similar to snoball's coat of arms

hypothetical Turkish or Korean dining option possibly unfair to people outside large cities, unless "kebab shop" counts as Turkish

am a university dropout, was hoping to go back and see how my score changed between pretending not to have gone at all vs pretending to have finished, but the whole thing took too long and took itself too seriously for that

I scored higher than all of you for social capital!!!1 (uh, xp, except c#maj) which is kind of hilarious because I don't know anyone at all, in fact it is probably because I don't know anyone at all, normal people fill in what their actual friends do whereas I was resorting to "uhhh this guy at my evening class does that so I'll say yes" "uhhh the landlord at my local pub is a pub landlord, that'll do"

(tbf we do often chat as we're often the only customers, ahem - I did not tick anyone unless either I had been drinking with them or their personal number is in my or my bf's phone - but the social butterflying is mostly the bf's work while I sit at home typing exclamation marks into the internet)

74/100
40/100
20/100

Haha my coat of arms is just a video game controller on like an empty shield.

my coat of arms is a knife and fork and a computer screen

i.e. i am a nerd who eats a lot

:(

economic 32%
social 60%
cultural 40%

biggest self-truthbomb in this was admitting that the only two papers I'd be *likely* to read (online but even so) in an average week were the Guardian and the Mail :/

Got 100s on social and cultural capital but then it told me I was broke and owned no property. *cries*

mine was a metal dude's hand next to what I assume to be a magazine

real talk

What cultural class are you in if you refuse to sign in or register?

"the disappeared"

Property - You say that you own property and its value is above average for the UK. Over 65% of people in the UK own the homes they live in, and property is one of the largest contributors to personal wealth in Britain.

I don't 'own' it. All being well we might own it after 30 years. And it's a cramped flat in a moderately scruffy bit of east London which is cheap by London standards. I can't help feeling this is a flawed analysis.

Your social network is wider than 0% of people in the UK

I just clicked 'no' for every single job. I wasn't really sure who it meant by 'people you know socially', so I excluded anyone I've ever worked with and all family. And then I realised I don't really know what my friends jobs are: something or other in market research, something or other in publishing, etc. Certainly nothing as clearly defined as 'bus driver' or 'lawyer'.

You scored 30/100 for cultural capital.
Your range of cultural interests is narrower than the average person in the UK

This might be true, but the question was phrased about what I'd done in the last year. Since becoming a parent I can hardly ever do anything. That doesn't mean I wouldn't if I could and it hardly changes my social class. Or does it?

While I agree that it's terribly flawed, I'd still say that where you live ("Tbf I had to put never for visits to the opera or ballet in the last 12 months but I live in Hull") and whether you can afford time away from the kid (i.e. do you hire a nanny so you can make your regular trips to the opera) do affect your cultural capital. And bear in mind that they aren't yet equating that with class, but rather gathering data so they can make stupid sweeping statements later.

I meant "e.g." rather than "i.e." there, I think. Maybe that should have been a question.

And then I realised I don't really know what my friends jobs are: something or other in market research, something or other in publishing, etc. Certainly nothing as clearly defined as 'bus driver' or 'lawyer'.

same here

I don't even want to know about my friends' jobs. There's nothing more boring than going out after a week of work and talking about work.

Ditto, that must explain the shockingly low result below:

24/100
20/100
70/100

Fuck, I am poor... at the moment anyway

You scored 39/100 for economic capital
You scored 60/100 for social capital
You scored 90/100 for cultural capital

80/60/80

So I'll just shut up complaining about child benefits ever again.

You scored 39/100 for economic capital
You scored 10/100 for social capital
You scored 70/100 for cultural capital

lol I don't know anyone who does any of those jobs, I know a teacher, that's it.

At least, I assume members of family don't count as social connections?

I'm amazed you all have such high scores on the cultural thing! Is it just the music question?

I read a lot and go to museums/galleries a reasonable amount, too, but I think the music thing probably tilts it high.

Not British, but close enough, and I can't resist:

63/100 Economic (average, which surprises me a little)

100/100 Social (Deceptive in the extreme, because I'm an antisocial bugger at best, but I know loads of people through sport, music and politics, and they have loads of different jobs - plus I live in a very mixed area, so a lot of the options would be neighbours)

100/100 Cultural

i didn't think i'd get such a higher cultural score b/c i did some of the activities only sometimes - maybe it's just that (living in london helps) i've actually done all of them in the past year? can't remember exactly what the questions were and it won't let me back into the test to check.

i'm 39 Economic and also "average"

62/100/100, a mixture of my own artsy friends + my husband's mostly blue-collar mates seems to be doing the social thing some favours, and being a mixture of artsy and also going to the football and playing bingo with my dad seems to make me culturally diverse, I guess.

Yeah, I think being urban rather than suburban, and living somewhere where actually going to the opera and the football is possible is going to help.

Dunno really, I don't go to either but I still got 70/100. Can only assume that's because I watch BBC1 AND Channel 5.

... and ITV 2. I don't read newspapers either.

You scored 89/100 for economic capital
You scored 60/100 for social capital
You scored 100/100 for cultural capital

You scored 34/100 for economic capital
You scored 85/100 for social capital
You scored 30/100 for cultural capital

I'm an Amurrican, but I don't go out drinking. Guess I'm a dumb chav, ehh blokes?

10-4 good buddy

*sn-word*

That'd be a good poll –– British stereotypes of Americans vs American Stereotypes of Brits.

You scored 10/100 for social capital
lol I don't know anyone who does any of those jobs, I know a teacher, that's it.
― a fucking stove just fell on my foot. (Colonel Poo)

Ditto. This suggests that moving to Walthamstow = the end of social lives. I know lots of teachers, but I couldn't say yes to that because they're all current or former colleagues.

34/70/100.

If only I knew a noble :(

I'm really surprised I got 100/100 - my friend who visits a different gallery/interpretative mime show/world music happening etc etc each week would break the entire system. I ticked 'rarely' for a few of those on the basis of having done them once or twice a year (ie classical/going sportz).

I classed myself as 'middle middle' btw!