Worldwide Happiness Map

[Sueven]

http://www.geostrategis.com/images/happymap_800big.jpg



Happiest Countries:

United States
Canada
Iceland
Venezuela
Costa Rica
Norway
Sweden
Finland
Ireland
Netherlands
Denmark
Switzerland
Austria
United Arab Emirates
Oman
Bhutan
Malaysia
Australia
New Zealand

Interestingly, the countries which are present most strongly here on VV (United States, Canada, Scandinavian countries, Australia, Ireland) all make the list.

[Dregor Thule]

The Great Lakes are hella depressed.

[Winnow]

Japan needs to cheer up!

[Boogahz]

Is that an updated version of the post last year?

[Sueven]

Looks like it, same author

[laneela]

I think it's the exact same map. Both were created in 2006.

I refuse to believe Argentinians are as happy as that map implies. Have you ever met an Argentinian?

[Ashur]

We're so happy we pay Chinese to play our games for us.

[miir]

They forgot Poland.

[Noysyrump]

What the hell are those Mongolians smiling about?




Maybe they are happy that the chinese arent...

[Funkmasterr]

FUCKING MONGORIANS, STOP BREAKING DOWN MY SHEETY WALL!

[Noysyrump]

FUCKING MONGORIANS, STOP BREAKING DOWN MY SHEETY WALL!

[masteen]

What the fuck are the French so unhappy about? I think we need to liberate them.

[miir]

What the fuck are the French so unhappy about? I think we need to liberate them.

Are you colour blind?

[Sueven]

Are you colour blind?

Are you? Looks to me like France is less happy than Spain, England, Ireland, all of Scandinavia, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, America, Canada... basically the majority of peer nations.

To the extent that this map is worth anything.

[Boogahz]

What the fuck are the French so unhappy about? I think we need to liberate them.

Are you colour blind?

Can you locate France on a map?

[Aardor]

What the fuck are the French so unhappy about? I think we need to liberate them.

Are you colour blind?

I think he might have been making a joke, since the French flag is often referred to "colours" or "tricolours".

[miir]

France is the shade of orange that is above average.

[Sueven]

Sure. And France, by most objective measures, is well above average in those things which are commonly thought to determine quality of life... income, culture, leisure time, peace, etc. So you would expect that, by subjective measures, which this map measures, they would also be well above average. Instead, France is subjectively less happy than those nations which score similarly on objective measures. Thus the question as to why France is so unhappy.

I know you understand this without my explaining it. You're way too smart to be doing anything other than being deliberately obtuse here.

[cadalano]

lay off guys. masteen led an underprivledged youth and grew up without maps. does he make fun of you? only a little.

[Boogahz]

lay off guys. masteen led an underprivledged youth and grew up without maps. does he make fun of you? only a little.

but he must have had a map if he could locate France!

[miir]

Sure. And France, by most objective measures, is well above average in those things which are commonly thought to determine quality of life... income, culture, leisure time, peace, etc. So you would expect that, by subjective measures, which this map measures, they would also be well above average. Instead, France is subjectively less happy than those nations which score similarly on objective measures. Thus the question as to why France is so unhappy.

I know you understand this without my explaining it. You're way too smart to be doing anything other than being deliberately obtuse here.

France has more than it's fair share sociopolitical and racial tensions in the past few years.
That they are slightly less happy than the surrounding nations is understandable.

To say that they are unhappy when they are actually above average is a bit of a misinterpretation.

[Sueven]

France has more than it's fair share sociopolitical and racial tensions in the past few years.
That they are slightly less happy than the surrounding nations is understandable.

And that is a reasonable response to the question "what the fuck are the French so unhappy about," and the statement implicitly acknowledges that the French are indeed less happy than would be expected absent such an explanation.

And the most notable manifestations of trouble in France, the recent riots, didn't occur until after this map was produced. It's also not like other Western European nations are completely devoid of all sociopolitical, racial, and violence issues...

To say that they are unhappy when they are actually above average is a bit of a misinterpretation.

I'm so glad that we went through this oh-so-valuable exercise in parsing semantics instead of just understanding that the obvious implication is that France is relatively unhappy

[masteen]

Je suis emo.

[Kilmoll the Sexy]

Miir thinks the real France is in Canada

[Sylvus]

Je suis emo.

Vous êtes homo.

Brûlure!

[Noysyrump]

There hasn't been a happy frenchman since Napoleon.

Fucking French.