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Strangers who watched sixty seconds of silent footage guessed people’s income and social class better than chance: the dining habits we read as ‘poor’ are learned codes, judged fast and often wrongly
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The lists of “dining habits that make you look poor” that circulate online treat this sorting as a set of mistakes to fix.
People sort each other by class fast, from thin evidence, using cues the person being judged is usually not aware of sending.
The person doing the marking rarely notices they have done it.
The habits read as poor were mostly just habits from somewhere else.
The table only ever recorded where a person learned to eat, not what they were worth once they sat down.