Age and social class were associated with overestimates of class mobility
in line with Study 1: younger and higher subjective social class
participants overestimated class mobility. Importantly, relationships
between age, subjective social class, and overestimates of social class
mobility held even after accounting for political ideology, educational
attainment, and self-reports of knowledge about economic mobility—a
result suggesting that overestimates of class mobility relate to age and
social class in ways that are independent of both explicit knowledge of
economic mobility and political beliefs.