Check your privileges

78/100

You're among the most privileged people in the world. We don't live in an ideal world, but you happened to be born into an ideal lot. This is not a bad thing, nor is it something to be ashamed of. It just means a lot of other people in the world don't live life with the advantages you have, and that's something you should always be aware of. Hey, the fact that you took the time and effort to check your privilege means that you're already trying.

Suck it, losers.
 
66/100. Not so smart test.

Narz' stats:
Race: +10
Wealth: 0
Celebrity: 0 (well, that depends ^^)
Height: -3 (I think; 8 cm smaller than average for my age)
Fitness: +10
Looks: 0
Carreer help: +10 (my parents paid my studies).
That acutally doesn't make me look really priviliged.

And to make it like Warpus:
For me: I'm pretty priviliged. White, young, highly educated, heterosexual cis-male (I think first time I ever wrote cis-male ^^) with good fitness and no health issues (besides a sore throat every 2 months). Speaking 3 languages, living abroad and of a "good" nationality (depending on definition).
Against me: No partner, no car, and apparently a creepy vibe when people get to know me. Also not very tall, but I'm 2cm taller than the average woman here (phew). And right now no friends at the place where I'm living.
Neutral: Looks are average, so is income (probably a bit better)
 
Ignoring the fact that a privilege calculator is a silly concept, a lot of evidence shows that people who are taller make more money than people who are shorter, and are also generally more successful at getting hired or a raise. Tall people also tend to not live quite as long. So it's a double bonus.

The height difference is negligible compared to so many other factors.

https://www.livescience.com/5552-taller-people-earn-money.html

For 2 inches over average height they estimate it's about $900 a year. That $900 is extremely easy to make up by just taking advantage of other opportunities. Plus there are tons of short successful people that it's hard to say you're screwed by being short. Being taller is definitely an advantage aesthetically but I wouldn't call it a privilege.

74 on the buzzfeed test. Straight white male who finished college. Yup. That's a high score there.
 
85/100 I think the test has too many sexuality oriented questions that make it too easy for non heterosexuals to score lower. But that's high profile in our culture these days. Not very scientific, but fun.
 
Not very scientific, but fun.
And it's a privilege ranking for already (globally speaking) highly privileged Westerners. Questions that aren't on the quiz. "Cholera is not a significant disease in your country" "Your neighborhood didn't get shelled by mortars last night" "Clean drinking water is less than two miles from your home."
 
It is also a young person's quiz. I lost points because my dad is dead (he would be 100 if he were alive and because my mother is not paying my bills). I am not sure how using prescription drugs recreationally is a sign of privilege.
 
It is also a young person's quiz. I lost points because my dad is dead (he would be 100 if he were alive and because my mother is not paying my bills). I am not sure how using prescription drugs recreationally is a sign of privilege.

I suspect that meant drugs prescribed to you. The underprivileged when feeling low buy something down on the corner. The privileged just go to the medicine cabinet and rummage through their leftovers, which were paid for by an insurance company after one of their "I dunno, I'm just kinda down" visits to their friendly family physician.
 
42/100
You're not privileged at all. You grew up with an intersectional, complicated identity, and life never let you forget it. You've had your fair share of struggles, and you've worked hard to overcome them. We do not live in an ideal world and you had to learn that the hard way. It is not your responsibility to educate those with more advantages than you, but if you decide you want to, go ahead and send them this quiz. Hopefully it will help.

So many american-centric assumptions in that quiz. Not having to worry about medication cost is not so big a deal when most of your medication cost is paid by the government in the first place ; and the fact that I've never heard of Sallie Mae (before looking it up) doesn't mean I don't have students debt problems. Or assuming international travel is a sign of being well off (when you live 100 km from the US border, having been there a few times in your life is not a sign of financial wealth or being well-traveled...to say nothing of Europe)

Likewise the question barely covers linguistic minorities (only a single point about them, relating to accent), who are quite disadvantaged, while having entirely too much of an obsession on religious privilege and the lack of thereof.
 
83/100

As expected since i am of the predominant race and nationality in my environment, higher education, healthcare secured, heterosexual, good health, physically fit, not serious economical issues... only negative thing i can think of is i have not traveled that much internationally.

Some questions do not make much sense for us europeans though.
 
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I also thought the "have you ever been the only person of your race in the room" question could really go either way. For example, if you're in the UK, white and poor then you would probably answer no to this. However, if you're in the UK, white and rich, then you probably went backpacking around Cambodia in your "gap year" at Daddy's expense, and so might answer yes to this. I'm guessing this would lead to the poor person being given a higher privilege rating than the rich person.

That's assuming we don't all just answer "yes" on the technicality that we must have been alone in rooms quite often, but I'm not sure what the exact phrasing of the question was now, so maybe that doesn't actually apply.

But then, this is Buzzfeed so you can't expect much. You'd typically get more sense by rubbing your buttocks on the keyboard than you would from anything on Buzzfeed. (If anyone wants to test that then please post the results in this thread)
 
But then, this is Buzzfeed so you can't expect much. You'd typically get more sense by rubbing your buttocks on the keyboard than you would from anything on Buzzfeed. (If anyone wants to test that then please post the results in this thread)

Moreover, the quiz appears to be based mainly on one of the most facile (and bourgeois-y) takes on privilege, that "unpacking the invisible knapsack" essay.
 
I am white.

Yes, for 1 point on the quiz. This quiz only gives one point for each item you check off.

15 points for not being gay? (due to 15 questions or so about sexuality). Although I've been called gay even though I'm not.

At over 40 years old, my parents better not be paying any bills, and student loans paid off a long time ago.
 
Oh... also, I thought the questions about religion could have been worded better (and also they went on foreverrrrrrr). For example, something like "have you ever felt that your workplace has not been accomodating of your religions needs?" would have been better than "is your workplace accomodating of your religions needs?". The latter presumes I actually have any, and I can actually truthfully answer yes OR no to this. The former isn't ambiguous at all and even an atheist only has one definite answer.
 
The height difference is negligible compared to so many other factors.

https://www.livescience.com/5552-taller-people-earn-money.html

For 2 inches over average height they estimate it's about $900 a year. That $900 is extremely easy to make up by just taking advantage of other opportunities. Plus there are tons of short successful people that it's hard to say you're screwed by being short. Being taller is definitely an advantage aesthetically but I wouldn't call it a privilege.

74 on the buzzfeed test. Straight white male who finished college. Yup. That's a high score there.
And yet for a 5'9" guy to be as desirable in online dating as the 5'10" guy he has to make $30,000 more. An older test between otherwise identical profiles had a 5'6" guy needing to make a quarter million to match the 6' guy making mid 5 figures.

How tall are you?
 
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The first 9 questions are about race. 9/9 in everyday (non-internet) life. If you count my trips to China it drops to 6/9. Online discussions drops to 4/9.
'Only person of your race in the room', I'm excluding times where is only two people in the room, that would seem petty (every day with my wife for example). When I went to a black bar (on multiple occasions), the bartenders were white females. In China I was the only white in TOWN on several occasions. The time I worked at a factory that was over 80% Hmong, isn't quite 100%.
'Mocked for accent'-In China, not exactly for accent, but for speaking english "Hello". (group of men around 20 or so years old that say that and giggle amongst themselves). Online for 'the boring/bland midwestern accent'
Racial slur-Online of course. Hasn't happened offline, excluding friendly 'redneck' names from other whites. Don't doubt some strangers in China were saying it, but at least not to my face. Standing in an airport between two black men, a couple Chinese young men were pointing at us and laughing amongst themselves. Whether it was me, the blacks, or all of us and some sort of 'oreo' joke, I don't know.

Next 14 questions are about sexuality.
12/14 off-line
Been called gay (when I'm not). I'm a bit reserved about PDA.
An incident that doesn't quite fit into any of the answers is the time I went to a gay bar (with a friend who went to visit his gay uncle) and there was a straight couple in the bar gawking at the gays, assumed me and my friend were also gays then when we saw them later at another bar the female was dripping drinks on us from the balcony above. I wouldn't say that was 'violently threatened' or attacked.

Next 10 are Gender
10/10
Unless a prostitute propositioning me counts as a 'catcall'.
Denied opportunity? Not that I know of. There is usually no way to know why you don't get a job you apply for. They typically won't say "We hired a female because we don't want men here". Can't say I ever tried to join an obvious woman group or something (cheerleader, women's basketball team, etc.).

Next 15 questions are financial.
4/15
No student loans. Over 40 years old, and the couple thousand I had to borrow to get an associates degree was paid off two decades ago.
Never homeless, don't use public transport and no unpaid internship.

Next 16 questions from summer camp to frequent flier miles, is still financial, but also kind of goes into other areas.
6/16
Parents forced me every summer to bible camp (and church), nowadays the church pays for it. I give my kids the choice: "If you go to sunday school you can go to summer camp". They decide it isn't worth it.
HS grad, I'm guessing the two year associates counts as 'college', had a $200 beater for a car in high school, traveled internationally (when I was in my 30's), as a kid my parents taking me to a mexican border town for an hour I wouldn't really count. and I know Sallie Mae, despite never using them.

The last 36 questions bounce all over, sometimes going back to previous categories.
20/36

"Too skinny", shamed for being atheist.

Disagree about prescription drugs. Yes, many do abuse their own prescriptions or 'swap' their scripts with their friends for their scripts. But, stealing grandma's arthritis medication, raiding medicine cabinets of neighbors, obtaining cash from other illegal activities so you can buy meds from a dealer, prostitution, etc. I wouldn't say is 'privileged'. Sometimes the meds are even paid for by Medicaid. It's not all about having a "Candy Man" family doctor.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=candyman+tomah
 
My life is easy mode. I'm not going to bother tallying up my privileges, I'll just concede to having any that people might suspect.

Dont forget Hair. Hair is a big privilege.

Is it? My maternal grandfather was fully bald by the time he was 30 (and the most awesome dude), so I was ready to suffer the same fate. A year ago, with no sign of that happening, I got tired of the hassle of dealing with my hair and just trim it down to 6mm on a weekly basis now. Got some comments on the different look ("you're going to be so aerodynamic now!") when I first cut it short, but can't say it's perceptibly affected me since then.
 
58....then in white letters with red background "you are quite privileged" :lol::lol:

this is obviously a joke "check your privilege" quiz but seems just as accurate...

Your privilege level is Privileged with a score of 55
 
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