Mean Happiness - 6 views
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Irene Hukkelhoven on 16 Jan 12For decades, the World Database of Happiness has tracked how happy people are.
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cgnorthcutt on 20 Jan 12anyqs Immediately when I see statistics on human emotions, I find myself asking, rather skeptically, how do they know how happy someone is? If I say that I am the highest level of happiness today, i.e. a 4, and then tomorrow I win the lottery, then I'm still stuck saying I'm a 4. I wonder what the statistics would have looked like if they gave their populations a greater range to choose from than 1 to 4? Perhaps 1 to 100? Would the people have rated themselves happier or less happy? Does forcing the sampling population into discrete values with a resolution of only four values affect how they respond? Further, the graph mentions that some countries weren't even surveyed some years... Perhaps they weren't surveyed during the worst years when everyone would have been very unhappy? \ The creators also gave "suggestions" as to why the counties got happier or sadder. For example, they believe that France became sadder as a whole country because we renamed Freedom Fries back to French Fries.. Really??? Is this website meant to give statistics or just to be funny? Consider the title, its even a joke. anyqs