The Happiest Countries in the World

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4 Jul 08 - 18:03
Rating Countries for the Happiness Factor

I don't know exactly how acurate a happiness study can actually be - a lot of people who commented disagreed with Denmark being in first place.

But my country's number 10!


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Nero Higher Spirit
4 Jul 08 - 23:11
WOAHOHOHOHO!
And UK is nowhere to be seen...:P
Canadians are really happy though....except for me, never seen a cynical person. Everyone is joyous.
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4 Jul 08 - 23:33
Well, today might have boosted up my country's happiness for a bit for now (since today's our independence day). No. 23! :sun:
Unless...this article came in 2006, so things might have changed since.

I remember posting another article about this on IRC. Let me see if I can find it...
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Nero Higher Spirit
5 Jul 08 - 01:22
Oh...2006...
Crap...
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Dansariki Higher Spirit
5 Jul 08 - 03:19
Rawr. 23.

I think it depends on the person, or at least by state, but quite frankly I'm surprised we made it this far.
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Random Utukku
5 Jul 08 - 16:27
We like being miserable. It gives a good perspective on life.
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Nero Higher Spirit
5 Jul 08 - 16:43
What type of life if there is no joy?
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Random Utukku
8 Jul 08 - 00:17
Nah, you just take joy in being miserable.
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Nero Higher Spirit
8 Jul 08 - 14:33
Ah....like House?
8 Jul 08 - 16:47
That's why there are no clowns in Britain
wait, what??!
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Apollo Marid
9 Jul 08 - 00:39
Random wrote:Nah, you just take joy in being miserable.
It's not misery anymore if you do that. It's happiness.

I suppose you could take joy from acting miserable and appearing miserable, yet not really being miserable, due to the fact that you're suddenly joyful.
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Nero Higher Spirit
9 Jul 08 - 12:52
Hello Apollo...
hmm yes that's somewhat true and understandable... ^_^
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Dansariki Higher Spirit
10 Jul 08 - 02:19
Like... Background happiness.
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Random Utukku
10 Jul 08 - 22:10
Wow, Apollo! You might actually start to understand us! Well done!
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10 Jul 08 - 22:28
My city's local newspaper did an article about this study (I found out today) and got half their facts wrong. :(


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10 Jul 08 - 22:57
Reporting of scientific studies in the media is notoriously bad. The vast majority of people have no conception of the meanings of statistics, and so they just get parrotted inaccurately over and over again.
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Dansariki Higher Spirit
11 Jul 08 - 14:07
Random wrote:Wow, Apollo! You might actually start to understand us! Well done!
More like we understand him a little better.
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16 Jul 08 - 00:05
wrote:Reporting of scientific studies in the media is notoriously bad. The vast majority of people have no conception of the meanings of statistics, and so they just get parrotted inaccurately over and over again.
For my local paper it's not just scientific studies. For example, the web site just put up a report of a hearing that was tonight (that I went to), and got half their facts wrong for that. And the spelling and grammar was terrible (Sure, I understand that they had to get this posted up quickly, but most of the mistakes were just stupid).


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20 Jul 08 - 23:34
FuzzyLobster wrote:
wrote:Reporting of scientific studies in the media is notoriously bad. The vast majority of people have no conception of the meanings of statistics, and so they just get parrotted inaccurately over and over again.
For my local paper it's not just scientific studies. For example, the web site just put up a report of a hearing that was tonight (that I went to), and got half their facts wrong for that. And the spelling and grammar was terrible (Sure, I understand that they had to get this posted up quickly, but most of the mistakes were just stupid).
Local papers obey their own special rules. Ignoring them aggressively is the best strategy.
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