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When, after you have cleaned out your sock drawer and stopped doomscrolling for sanity’s sake in the idle space between 3 and 4 a.m., sleep still refuses to come, there remains one option. There is the ubiquitous personality quiz.
These always beckon; multiple-choice attention traps purporting to reveal your style, likability, the way you love, how you lean politically or where you land on the spectrum of psychopathy. That the conclusions reached after taking these tests should be obvious from the outset is irrelevant. Logic is elusive in the predawn hours or, come to think of it, at pretty much any time when you’ve made the choice to take an online quiz.
Now, from IDR Labs, comes the social media-friendly Food Social Class Test, a casual online survey based on a data-driven academic report published in 2020 by Silvia Bellezza and Jonah Berger at the University of Pennsylvania. That work was broadly derived from research into the connections between social class and the things we choose to put in our mouths — a link explored in the early 1980s by the French academic and intellectual Pierre Bourdieu.
Mr. Bourdieu’s work sharply skewered myths of social mobility in a postindustrial society. He found, unsurprisingly, that in many ways those at the top of the capitalist food chain go to considerable lengths to safeguard and maintain social privilege and generational wealth.
88bet slotWhich brings us to the twice-baked potato topped with melted Cheddar and bacon bits: Reader, I took the test.
In it, each of the 35 menu options is offered as a silhouetted photo with a bar beneath it for rating a selection. Users are encouraged to rate such things as a Cheddar-topped baked potato by indicating the degree to which they “agree” or “disagree” with it. Though there are plenty of things with which this reporter quibbles on a daily basis, seldom has a baked potato provoked him to argument.
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