Just look at each criterion and give yourself a point if it applies to you.
I never figured out the colour scheme either.
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Colour scheme is so you can spot the same item across multiple years in the article.
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Then why didn’t they use reds, greens, and blues, instead of whites and browns? I wondered if there was extra data on race I would have gathered if I’d read the article carefully (which I didn’t because the study seemed so questionable).
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¯_(ツ)_/¯
ETA: Although they did use blues.
It looks like browns show items that have moved up the ranking (darker is more movement), and blues are items that have moved down the ranking (ditto).
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Makes sense.
Using colors to indicate race would be pretty rude, now that I think about it.
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Now that I think more about it, I would say that choice of colors was about the poorest example of scientific visualization I’ve ever seen – and I’ve seen a lot of it, and produced a lot, though not out of thin air but by studying good examples.
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I agree; the article seems to be missing lots of info about what the study really said, the methodology, what these color coded things are meant to say, etc.
@MalevolentPixyExactly that some of these questions seem like, “No shit Sherlock!” You say that black people aren’t big fans of the po po? That white people own houses and black people don’t? Liberals don’t eat super processed foods? I feel like there is more to how they are doing this study than the article is explaining - either that or it’s kind of a dumb study.
But the flashlight thing is a pure mystery to me.
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It’s not a matter of whether or not I’m a fan of the police, I just don’t think they should beat on people for no reason.
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Just saying that the questions beget the answers. Is it really a surprise that more white people approve of how the police do their jobs than black people?
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Sadly, no.
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Keep the jar in the cabinet upside down 
Just peanuts and tons of added salt 
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I used to wonder why my mom kept peanut butter in the fridge till I got my first jar of Adams. Stir it in once and put in the fridge.
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If you missed it, then so did I.
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Gotta luv that 'stache tho
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Pornstache.
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Yeah, this article would have been more fun had we been able to take the quiz and see for ourselves how accurate the predictors were as well.
As it is, I own a house with AC and all that shit, so yeah, all white in that department. But my brands, I think, mostly reflect my semirural blue-collar upbringing. I like Arby’s and Sonic is okay, and Jif is fine, though I’m more of a Skippy man. In the 70s and 80s my mom tried to upgrade our food habits a bit, so we never had white bread or sugary cereals or Kool-Aid or Chef Boyardee stuff, and our peanut butter was Laura Scudder’s Natural Crunchy. I ate 2 sammiches a day of that shit for all of high school. We stirred up the new jar and then kept it in the fridge to keep the oil from separating. Good thing we had whole wheat bread; it would have shredded Wonder Bread.
Some of those eating habits lasted. I still greatly prefer whole wheat bread to white bread. But that “natural” peanut butter can kiss my ass. I switched to Skippy Super Chunk the day I moved out of my parents’ house.
And I no longer own a Chevy, but I still like Arby’s, Cool Whip, and Little Debbie’s, and have no strong objection to Applebee’s or Tyson. I won’t buy Dockers or Wrangler jeans; 100% Levi’s for me.
Plus I love fried chicken and waffles, orange soda, watermelon, frijoles, and BBQ, but I hate mayonnaise and cole slaw and potato salad. And I couldn’t choke down a latte or frappucino if I tried.
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That’s the big new hipster food… I think. Maybe it was the big new hipster food from like three years ago. I’m no hipster.
But yes, I eat them unironically.
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I hadn’t heard of it until I moved to Hollywood in 1991, and discovered Roscoe’s on Gower at Sunset. Been a convert ever since.
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