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From: "Jim Clark" <[email protected]>
To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)"
<[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 1:58 AM
Subject: Re: [tips] Are You Happy Now?
Hi
You could not be further from the truth, Michael, unless you are referring
to the $75,000 threshold mentioned in the article. Here is one summary of
the wealth-satisfaction relationship across and within nations. The slope
of the line through each country symbol indicates the relationship within
countries.
http://blogs.mccombs.utexas.edu/mccombs-today/files/2009/09/happiness-chart.png
There is an overall between-nation trend for higher GDP to be associated
with higher life satisfaction. And for most nations, there is an
association within the country between income and satisfaction.
Both the between country (ecological) and within-country correlations are of
course non-experimental, but the association is certainly robust and quite
general, albeit not universal.
Take care
Jim
I guess folks in Papua New Guinea and the indigenous people of Bolivia have
little life satisfaction.
Michael.
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