[sustran] New Dartmouth/Warwick findings

Jonathan E. D. Richmond richmond at alum.mit.edu
Sat Jun 12 23:37:15 JST 2004


You will all doubtless be intrigued by the findings of a recent study by
Dartmouth and Warwick funded by the US National Bureau of Economic
Research. I just hope that this does not come to the attention of Thai
politicians or we can expect to find facilities to satisfy the happiest
activity offered on services that apparently currently make the public
most unhappy! --Jonathan



>From The Times, June 12 2004

The survey finds that sex is the thing that makes us happiest, with the
highly educated more likely to find ultimate pleasure from a roll in the
hay than those with fewer academic qualifications. But while sex makes us
smile, the survey finds that a daily commuter trip to work is what makes
us most unhappy.

Sex is rated retrospectively as the activity that produces the single
largest amount of happiness, the report states. Commuting to and from work
produces the lowest levels of psychological wellbeing. These two
activities come top and bottom, respectively, of a list of 19 activities.


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