The study is based on a March 2009 survey of 1,100 households representative of greater Buenos Aires. Researchers gathered data on respondents’ actual household income, and compared those numbers to respondents’ perceptions of their own rankings within the income distribution for all of Argentina.
They found that everyone thought they were basically middle class. Poor people consistently overestimated their rank, and rich people consistently underestimated their rank:
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