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Your class calculator is not useful. Anyone taking it seriously is asleep. It takes no account of education or regional location, both huge influences on income. Shouldn't the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ be reporting on a serious University or research institute doing this rather than pulling the wool over everyone's eyes?

It discovered my roots but not the current actuality no doubt because I am old and deaf (so have given up going to the theatre)

It's not fit for purpose.

The great British

I took the test as having an income of less than 25K and was classified Traditional Working Class.
I am retired and widowed but had my wife still been living our joint net income would have been just over 25K. I repeated the test with this new data and was classified Elite.
So much for social science as a science.

The survey may be relavent for the mix of university attendees, but what about the other 87% of the population.

It's useless, I tried it and the result is wildly inaccurate. It tries to group people according to a curious set of unlikely combinations. People use social media regardless of income. It also takes no account of last few years post credit crunch recession realities such as salary £40-50k when in work but out of work much of the time and which has a devastating impact upon savings/debt etc.

Complete waste of time - just answer the first question on earnings so answer £100k and you are "elite" whatever you say to any other question. Your class changes accordingly as you choose another income figure. try answering just this question and no others it will always classify you in this ranking?
Why does the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ waste licence payers money on generating clap trap like this?

It couldn't make its mind up if I was a pleb or a commodity.

I tried it twice and as a previous post observes just increasing income appears to be the key variable. I'm disappointed that the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ news website has this dubious piece of interactive content but seems to be narrowing down the opportunity for people to comment on all the key stories. Just look at the home page - not one main story with a comment thread!

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I thought the results were interesting, though struggle to see the relevance. It would be great if ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ used their social media partnerships to determine what survey participants think they are, and cross-reference that with the survey questions.

Steve, any chance of combining this with ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ CoJ's social mapping work? Would be fascinating to see the social class of key influencers and followers on the net.

@Meryl - I think the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ would have done something like that to develop the calculator in the first place.

@thecat321 - not sure why you're surprised that the income variable influences social class the most. Having said that, I think it would be interesting to see what the relative weightings are of the the different questions on the final class calculation.

Don't really think it's rocket science why the class calculator proved to be so popular... it's the same kind of stuff as the tacky personality questionnaires that helps sell popular magazines... everyone is either bored or curious to find out more about where they fit in.