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CDC: People in sunny states happiest, New York least

Postby Roy Mustang » Fri Dec 18, 2009 1:56 pm

CDC: People in sunny states happiest, New York least

Well duh!

Here is the list,

USAtoday wrote:The state-by-state list (including Washington, D.C.), from happiest to least cheery:

1. Louisiana
2. Hawaii
3. Florida
4. Tennessee
5. Arizona
6. South Carolina
7. Mississippi
8. Montana
9. Alabama
10. Maine
11. Wyoming
12. Alaska
13. North Carolina
14. South Dakota
15. Texas
16. Idaho
17. Vermont
18. Arkansas
19. Georgia
20. Utah
21. Oklahoma
22. Delaware
23. Colorado
24. New Mexico
25. North Dakota
26. Minnesota
27. Virginia
28. New Hampshire
29. Wisconsin
30. Oregon
31. Iowa
32. Kansas
33. Nebraska
34. West Virginia
35. Kentucky
36. Washington
37. District of Columbia
38. Missouri
39. Nevada
40. Maryland
41. Pennsylvania
42. Rhode Island
43. Ohio
44. Massachusetts
45. Illinois
46. California
47. New Jersey
48. Indiana
49. Michigan
50. Connecticut
51. New York


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Postby Cognitive Gear » Fri Dec 18, 2009 2:15 pm

46. California


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Postby Ante Bellum » Fri Dec 18, 2009 2:17 pm

Minnesota is 26th. I guess that's about right.
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Postby Mr. SmartyPants » Fri Dec 18, 2009 2:26 pm

What kind of statistical measurement did they conduct for this? D:
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Postby goldenspines » Fri Dec 18, 2009 3:39 pm

So, the conclusion is: what do both Louisiana and Florida have? Hurricanes.
Hurricanes make people happy, apparently. :D

My state is not as far down on the list as I thought it would be, though. That's somewhat nice.
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Postby Radical Dreamer » Fri Dec 18, 2009 3:47 pm

Interesting, I'm pretty high up on the list. XD I do wonder how accurate this is, though. There's no way they could've surveyed enough people in each state to get a good idea of people's satisfaction with life. XD Every state has rich and poor people (which could bring some interesting results in their life satisfaction, actually), happy and sad people, depressed people, cheery people, etc. etc. But I would think a study like that would have a looot of extenuating factors besides just the weather. After all, some people like rain! XD

Also LOL Goldie. XDDD That's totally because they have to balance out how happy they are with a one-two punch from the Atlantic or the Gulf every now and again. XDD
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Postby Roy Mustang » Fri Dec 18, 2009 4:04 pm

About Louisiana #1 for happiness?, I think they must have polled a bunch of happy drunks at Mardi Gras!

Or the BBQ and jumbo is that good down there!

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Postby Esoteric » Fri Dec 18, 2009 5:28 pm

Whoa, whoa.... Maine is 10 and Alaska is 12? And these are *ahem* sunnier states than Nevada 39 and California 46?! It's night for six months of the year in Alaska--they have one of the highest suicide rates because of it. I find the conclusion that happy people (and cows) come from sunny states to be highly flawed.

I notice several of the rust-belt states scored pretty low. Pretty sure the regional jobless rate had more to with that than the weather....
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Postby Ante Bellum » Fri Dec 18, 2009 6:01 pm

Well, about half the people I know are fairly happy, and the other half (myself included) have emotional/depression issues. MN's a fairly sunny state, which is blinding in winter when the white snow gets even brighter. Oh, and we have cows here. They seem content enough.
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Postby Whitefang » Fri Dec 18, 2009 6:50 pm

Just ranking them is kind of pointless without any numbers to see the standard deviation, the percentages of "happy" people, and the relative rates compared to other states.
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Postby shade of dae » Fri Dec 18, 2009 7:35 pm

Haha. Michigan is 49th on the list. That really doesn't surprise me. We aren't exactly known for being friendly around here.
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Postby ich1990 » Fri Dec 18, 2009 9:18 pm

Well, people here in Florida seem to be very relaxed.

Except for the ones with New York license plates, that is.

As far as anecdotal evidence is concerned, I would say the study is accurate.
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Postby MangArtist » Sat Dec 19, 2009 7:32 am

Roy Mustang (post: 1361329) wrote:51. New York


I believe it. T_T
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Postby Silent Seraph » Sat Dec 19, 2009 8:37 am

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Postby Fish and Chips » Sat Dec 19, 2009 9:31 am

How is California not No. 1?

We have the highest concentration of happy people in America.

Some of them are even trying to get married.
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Postby Mr. Hat'n'Clogs » Sat Dec 19, 2009 1:36 pm

goldenspines (post: 1361349) wrote:So, the conclusion is: what do both Louisiana and Florida have? Hurricanes.
Hurricanes make people happy, apparently. :D

My state is not as far down on the list as I thought it would be, though. That's somewhat nice.

I lol'ed.

And yeah, I was pretty suprised about where we were too.
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Postby Lilac#18 » Sat Dec 19, 2009 2:11 pm

What? My home state California at #46?
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Postby Dante » Sat Dec 19, 2009 3:06 pm

If Arizona is cheery, I hate to see the morbid nature of other states O_o. Actually, I despise sunny days, mostly because EVERY day was sunny here in AZ. I loved storms and monsoons because... well, it blocked out that accursed sun.

I disagree with this research in support of actual weather. But that's just my opinion.

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Postby ShiroiHikari » Sat Dec 19, 2009 4:48 pm

Fish and Chips (post: 1361497) wrote:How is California not No. 1?

We have the highest concentration of happy people in America.

Some of them are even trying to get married.


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Postby Nate » Sat Dec 19, 2009 8:07 pm

Oddly there was a Dinosaur Comics about this recently. I WOULD just straight up embed the image but there's a slight bit of language? So I will just regular link it and say hey there is a slight bit of language in this comic. But it is totally relevant to this:

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Postby shooraijin » Sun Dec 20, 2009 11:48 am

Fish and Chips (post: 1361497) wrote:How is California not No. 1?

We have the highest concentration of happy people in America.

Some of them are even trying to get married.


That one took me a second. *whap*

Natch, California has its own problems unrelated to sunlight (not germane for this thread, of course).
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