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Some people think they can measure happiness. That’s why they have the “Happiness Index”

The Happiness Index
The results of the survey, going back an average of 17 years in 52 countries and involving 350,000 people, will be published in the July 2008 issue of the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science. Researchers have asked the same two questions over the years: “Taking all things together, would you say you are very happy, rather happy, not very happy, not at all happy?” And, “All things considered, how satisfied are you with your life as a whole these days?”

According to the new suvery done,

Previous research has found that happiness is partly inherited and that money doesn’t buy much of it. Yet the new survey finds people of rich countries tend to be happier than those of poor countries. And controlling for economic factors, certain types of societies are much happier than others.

Perhaps as globalisation envelops the world, the importance of material wealth also increase. Yet, this is done presumably that one can measure happiness. Man has always tried to understand things by measuring, putting them into numbers and figures. Perhaps, measuring happiness issn’t so important after all if we realise that happiness is more than a state of our mind than anything else.

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