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> This kind of analysis was all the rage in the 1970 Is it any worse than classifying people as Boomer, Millennial or Gen X? Or Buzzfeed "We Know Your Best Qu

• okareaman 5y ago
  No, it's all fun bar stool conversation. I'm not sure anyone actually talks about another as a "Michael Scott" or a "Dwight Schrute" for reals. I just wish young people talked about Boomers in a more nuanced way. We used to be known as the "Me Generation," which I think that is more apt.
• sideshowb 5y ago
  It's easy to be snobbish about it if you want to point out that it's not a scientific study published in a journal with Very Serious People as gatekeepers... ...but I think this one is onto something, and I wouldn't be surprised to see significant correlations between the behaviours described and social class as defined by relatively recent work e.g. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0038038513481128 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/003803851348112... (The above takes into account social and cultural activities and classifies Brits as elite, established middle class, technical middle class, new affluent workers, traditional working class, emergent service workers, precariat) The BBC used to have an interactive version of the above, but it's broken (again!) - if you report it they'll probably fix https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22000973 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22000973