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U.S. hits new low in World Happiness Report

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219 points surprisetalk | 11 comments | 25 Sep 25 20:52 UTC | HN request time: 1.357s | source | bottom
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brap ◴[25 Sep 25 21:58 UTC] No.45379709[source]▶
Would be interesting to see happiness segmented by Democrats/ Republicans.
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1. bitlax ◴[25 Sep 25 22:58 UTC] No.45380370[source]▶
Conservatives outperform liberals in self-reported happiness and mental health when controlling for demographics.
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2. Braxton1980 ◴[25 Sep 25 23:00 UTC] No.45380388[source]▶
What demographics and what does it mean to control them for statistics?
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3. abraxas ◴[25 Sep 25 23:02 UTC] No.45380407[source]▶
It's probably directly linked to their higher level of religiosity.
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4. pixelready ◴[25 Sep 25 23:08 UTC] No.45380472[source]▶
“Outperform” is a strange way of putting this. When did happiness and mental health become a contest?
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5. bitlax ◴[26 Sep 25 07:00 UTC] No.45383599[source]▶
Happiness and health are objective goods, in this case quantified.
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6. bitlax ◴[26 Sep 25 07:01 UTC] No.45383609[source]▶
This is observed among atheists.
7. bitlax ◴[26 Sep 25 07:22 UTC] No.45383744[source]▶
> What demographics

All of the ones you'd see most commonly: age, sex, race, religion, level of education, marital status, etc.

> control

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlling_for_a_variable

8. jdiff ◴[26 Sep 25 18:57 UTC] No.45389832{3}[source]▶
The question posed to you was "When did it become a contest?"
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9. bitlax ◴[26 Sep 25 19:31 UTC] No.45390168{4}[source]▶
Are you looking for a date?
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10. jdiff ◴[28 Sep 25 12:58 UTC] No.45404012{5}[source]▶
No, it's rhetorical to ask you "Why are you framing it as if it ever was?"

If happiness were a competition we should all be lining up for lobotomies and buying/finding as much sand as we can to bury our heads as deep as we can. But it's not. Conservatives haven't cracked any sort of code, and this line of questions was intended to draw you to this realization of your own accord. Instead, this.

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11. bitlax ◴[29 Sep 25 10:30 UTC] No.45412114{6}[source]▶
> "Why are you framing it as if it ever was?"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45383599

> If happiness were a competition we should all be lining up for lobotomies

You can prevent cancers by jumping off a bridge. I wouldn't advise it.

> Conservatives haven't cracked any sort of code

except the, like, happiness code