That was the result of one of those weird online tests that one can take. My middle son sent the link to me, so I thought I would give it a try.
You are shown 35 food choices, one at a time, and you are asked whether you would like to eat that food choice or not, on a scale of strongly agree to strongly disagree. The results are supposed to suggest what social class your food choices most closely align with.
With nearly every option being non-vegan friendly, I selected strongly disagree for virtually every food choice. I think I selected “strongly agree” for a baked potato and “agree” for potato chips, and everything else was “strongly disagree”.
I guess the test is not geared towards the less than one percent of the world’s population that is vegan.
As for my son who sent me the test, he identified as upper and upper-middle class.
If you’ve got nothing to do for five minutes and want to see how your food choices might define what class you are associated with, here is the link. The test takes less than five minutes.
The website also has dozens of other free personality tests, many of which are based on peer-reviewed scientific research, and all of which are crafted by experts in psychometrics. Examples of these tests include:
- measuring your cat’s personality
- is your cat a psychopath
- are you difficult to get along with
- are you a psychopath
- what is your level of toxic positivity
I didn’t see a test that measures whether you are the type of person more likely to take such tests…
*This post comes with a rabbit-hole warning. Be careful what you click on…
I wonder if the researchers could adjust for those results by writing “assume a meat-free/mock meat version has been presented”. This would probably give a slightly better indication of broad ‘tastes’ vs socioeconomic background.
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that’s what my son suggestd, so maybe I’ll take it again and see what it says…
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My results said I cannot be classified into one class. I guess my love for potato chips removed me from the upper class crust.
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I think that’s what did it for me as well. but who doesn’t love potato chips?!
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My food choices I guess were too confusing, they couldn’t be tied to one class.
Now I am hungry!
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it does get you thinking about food!
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Well I am classified as a middle class eater!
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seems like a good place to be…
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I was given one of those tests once. I ate it.
What the heck is toxic positivity?
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fro the web site: It is defined as the tendency to portray oneself as being happy no matter what. People who suffer from Toxic Positivity are switched off to anything that might be viewed as negative. By extension, people who suffer from Toxic Positivity are also inclined to encourage others to always see the bright side and not open up about sad or difficult issues.
I guess someone like that could get annoying…
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Yeah. Never take a person like that to a casino. If you lose big, they’ll be trying to cheer you up and trying to get you to win your money back.
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Since I have always liked Pooh Bear I had to do the Pooh Bear test, to see which character I was most like. Did you do that one? I am Pooh. 🙂
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I only did the food one. I guess if you like Pooh, you must be happy to be Pooh!
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Welll…. except for the fact that they assigned mental disorders to each character. LOL!
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and what was Pooh’s?
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Wellll…..I guess you will just have to take the test. 😉
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I’m too busy doing math puzzles… 🙂
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Haha!
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I’m happy to say that I defied classification. I liked just about everything. There were three mac & cheese dishes if I remember right. I wonder how the lobster and grits is classified. That dish combines upper class and lower class foods.
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I like grits and I love lobster so I clicked that I would highly eat it and my results were middle class. 😁
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that was a strange combo, and it seems to split the high and low class, so I guess that’s middle…
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I thought the same thing about the lobster and grits.
I would have thought that if you liked everything, you would have been solid middle class, but what do I know 🙂
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It is good to know that I’ll have plenty of likeable food options if I get rich or become poor.
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a man of many tastes…
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I took it and my results said middle class.
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I think that’s a nice solid polace to be…
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I love tests like these! Unfortunately, I got Lower Class which seems wrong. How many Lower Class people like Sashimi or Caviar?
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that does seem odd. and based on the name of your blog, did you try any of the cat tests?
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Not yet. But I saved the site to my Home Screen
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🙂
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Cats are all psychopaths. I didn’t know you were vegan, but I’m certain you just need a modified test to prove you are, in fact, upper class.
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we’ve never had a cat, but they do seem to have quirky personalities. If it was a clothing style test, I am sure I would be in the “bum” class…
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Ha ha. Me, too.
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I was not tied to any class—pretty much the way I see myself in real-life.
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that does seem to be a nice outcome when you think of it that way…
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I am an upper-class hunger on a lower-class budget.
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aren’t we all!
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i’m sprayed with color all over the place, but clearly dominant in middle class eating. i just want to know if my flamin’ hot cheetos addiction would push me into the upper? )
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those hot cheetos could push you into the 1 percenters… 🙂
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I clicked on the link but as I’d never even heard of the first food choice I guessed the survey is geared to Americans – and what counts for the class divisions over there may not be the same here anyway. I’m intrigued as to what you have to do if it turns out that both you and your cat are psychopaths, though. Is there a survey on the best ways to murder your cat?
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I’m sure all of our classes are below the Britisih classes 🙂
and I think the best kind of cat is someone else’s…
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Somehow I doubt that!
I agree with you on that. Horrible animals 😊
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I am a dog guy… 🙂
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Likewise 👍
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The test only allowed me to vote on the first two, then it insisted I download more stuff.
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that’s strange; I hpe you didn’t download anything!
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I did not!
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I ranked upper class, which is astonishing, but I think it’s mostly due to the fact that I don’t like mac n cheese.
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I’ve never had mac and cheese, and I never plan to either. but that didn’t help my social class standing…
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It transpires from this test that I am “upper class”! I’m not surprised as I eat oysters for example but avoid burgers, hot dogs etc and anything that might have wheat in them ……. Because I am a full blown coeliac! However, despite being well educated and wealthy, I am solid working class, and if my dear departed mum saw my result she’d murder me! I’ll keep my mouth shut about the reliability and validity of such tests, but being a psychologist I’m skewed in my view 😂😂. If you’re interested Im an INTJ and I’ll leave it to you to work that out. Nice post though Jim and I’ll show it around 🙏🙏🙏👏👏👏
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I also consider myself working class, and happily so. and small world, I am also INTJ!
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Ok I had to do this. No surprises there. I am middle class. There was a lot of Mac and cheese involved and I said yes to lobster tail and grits but I really hate grits. They would be left behind for the sake of the lobster. You on the other hand, being a vegan, would die of starvation.
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the lobster tail and grits was a strange combo…
or I could eat lots of baked potatoes… 🙂
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Perhaps my youngest daughter could learn more about her three rescue cats. Hmm, on second thought I was warned to be careful with what one clicks on.
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yes, proceed with caution 🙂
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I hate taking tests so I am just going to concede that I am a psychopath who is hard to get along with, short on time, and will eat almost anything with primitive table manners.
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you just described 90% of the population… 🙂
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That is somehow comforting and disquieting at the same time.
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🙂
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haha I’m so doing this!!!!
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Apparently I’m upper middle class lol but I would’ve been upper class if I weren’t allergic to lobster 🤣
Also, made my husband do the IQ test and he got perfect score… 16/16 😱🤔🤔🤔🤔
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have fun… 🙂
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I guess you are in a class by yourself, Jim, LOL. Elite! I might be one class above dumpster diver but I’m trying. I had a salad the other day. Then I gorged on yogurt covered pretzels. And I had been doing so well not eating sweets. There just weren’t any in the dumpsters I could reach. 🙂
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sweets and crunchy snacks are my downfall as well… 🙂
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🙂
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I’m definitely not but it said I was upper class…lol..I generally don’t do tests but as it was food….
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I thought you would have fun with it; I am guessing there is no validity to this test 🙂
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None at all, Jim which is why I don’t normally do them x
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I do a couple a year – usually in hopes of getting a blog post out of it!
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Of course you do, Jim…:) x x
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