# What we buy can be used to predict our politics, race or education — sometimes with more than 90 percent accuracy - The Washington Post

<https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/07/10/rich-people-prefer-grey-poupon-white-people-own-pets-data-behind-cultural-divide/?noredirect=on>

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## What Jamie wrote

Good examples of how a little bit of metadata can be used to make highly accurate assertions about the households and people behind it. ✋

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