Live Long… And be an Atheist! (New Study)
From Epiphenom
The splendid World Happiness Database has released a new analysis of their 2009 data. Basically what they’ve done is to multiply happiness scores in each nation with the life expectancy. The idea is that what most people want is a life that’s both long and happy. Costa Rica came out top, followed by the usual gaggle of Northern European Countries (and Canada). Now, there’s an ‘ecological’ problem in this analysis, in that the people with long lives in a nation aren’t necessarily the happiest. What’s more, happiness might be very unevenly distributed in some countries. Whenever these national statistics come out I always like to correlate them against religion, to see how they stack up. So here’s the results for this one.
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