I think Tyler Cowen has the best critique of this study: We need to be cautious in our interpretation of these results. Of the seven tests, two of them showed

I think Tyler Cowen has the best critique of this study: We need to be cautious in our interpretation of these results. Of the seven tests, two of them showed that people driving more expensive cars are more in a hurry and more likely to cut off others or not yield. That’s not praiseworthy, but hardly a major moral condemnation. Several of the tests involved people being asked to imagine they were high class, not actual “high class” people themselves. To that extent we are testing the lower class view of the upper classes, noting that I would not use those terms as given. One of the tests showed that social class did not matter once we adjust for a person’s attitude toward greed. A positive attitude toward greed is positively correlated with social class, but it was also easy enough to “prime” the lower class individuals to feel the same way, suggesting that extreme context dependence will hold here. http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2012/02/how-good-are-the-upper-classes.html http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2012/02/how...