Canada beats U.S. in global happiness index

[YoungJoonKim]

Biased or non-biased?
United States, richest country on Earth by GDP, scores lower than Canada.
And by GDP, happiest countries on Earth has less.

What is Gross Domestic Product?
Its a measure of goods and services (wealth) that exists within a country.
Even if GDP is lower, it is evident that a country can be much...much happier.

I guess money just can't buy happiness


http://news.sympatico.msn.ctv.ca/To...&newsitemid=CTVNews/20070831/happiness_070831

 

[I think not]

Oh big deal, you ask a population if they're happy the way things are going.

Score ten for being self-absorbed.

 

[YoungJoonKim]

I will be back to you when I figure out how they formulate the result

 

[I think not]

I will be back to you when I figure out how they formulate the result

Don't forget margin of error. :lol:

 

[Toro]

The relationship between money and happiness is weak.

I believe Africa often scores high on these types of surveys.

 

[gopher]

Much of the USA's wealth is in the hands of the wealthy elite class. The vast majority of us work for a living and rarely enjoy the luxuries they do.

 

[YoungJoonKim]

The vast majority of us work for a living and rarely enjoy the luxuries they do.

Don't worry, we still have some pie left for us.

 

[gopher]

Yeah, but who likes crumbs?

 

[I think not]

Much of the USA's wealth is in the hands of the wealthy elite class. The vast majority of us work for a living and rarely enjoy the luxuries they do.

You miss having a jaguar? Sailboat? Private jet? What?

 

[gopher]

You miss having a jaguar? Sailboat? Private jet? What?

... still looking for a wealthy wife --- perhaps she's just around the corner!;-)

 

[dumpthemonarchy]

The man who does the survey says Columbia and Guatemala are Western countries. Is that so? Guatemala is not rich or very democratic.
The quote:

Veenhoven says all countries in the top group scored closely, with the differences small.
"All these countries in the top are Western and they're rich," Veenhoven told CTV.ca in a phone interview from Rotterdam. "They're democratic, and they have a lot of gender equality and are fairly tolerant."