STATUS REPORTS

Upper Middle’s “Status Reports” use survey data to decode how social, cultural, and financial capital shape both our choices and our sense of self. Each report draws on correlations to expose impulse-driving biases and the subtle ways we’ve been socialized—for better and for worse. In understanding people like us, we understand ourselves.


GUILTY PLEASURESThe Upper Middle “Very Guilty Pleasures” examines how elites think about the their least elite habits and behaviors – and why we can’t help but hate ourselves. 764—39/23 
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EASE MAXXING
The Upper Middle “Self-Presentation Survey” examined how we present ourselves in social settings – particularly among perceived peers. Specifically, it dove deep on soft signaling.
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RARIFIED WILDS
The Upper Middle “Outdoorsy Survey” examined how we engage with, conceptualize, and fetishize nature. The survey data suggests that Nalgene-carrying weekend trippers clustered in metroplexes valorize “pure” nature, but can’t necessarily afford it.
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ANTSY NEIGHBORS

Our “Where Next Survey” explored how we think about moving: not just where we might go, but how we consider what those choices say about our class position, taste, and willingness to compromise. The results indicate that we’re house-proud and restless,
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