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uhm 26th June 2005 |
I'll kneel suck and swallow if they asked the most poor people in venezuela, and they all claimed to be the most happy people in the world. Thats one big joke..of course they didnt. they have asked some "civilized", meaning they asked some rich kids about life... |
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Lelia Katherine Thomas 29th August 2005 |
Unhappy yet satisfied, why is there a surprise that there's no correlation? Happiness does not equal satisfaction or vice-versa. For instance... You can be living off of a good salary and benefits and be satisfied with life. That, however, does not mean that you'll wake up smiling or have a bunch of friends, etc. In contrast, you can have a big family, a bunch of friends, and a good sense of humor, and never make as much money as what many strive to attain, but be happy. Just because you don't have huge job opportunities, which might attribute to a slight feeling of dissatisfaction, doesn't mean you can't be happy emotionally. To me, satisfaction has to do with necessities and materials. Happiness has to do with spirituality and emotions. Just a thought. |
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Disoblige 14th September 2005 |
I used to be living in Phillipines before I immigrated to Canadayo.I think i know why Phillipines has a higher stat in this survey than the satisfaction survey. If you ask Filipinos if "they like their lives", they would first think of their job and money. Filipino would say they are happy because they really value their family , friends and the little things they have. |
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Belliappa PK 7th October 2005 |
From todays google news site, in the survey by market research company GfK NOP, India ranks 4th highest for people who are very happy, and Egypt is 3rd in place. This seems to be a sudden jump from the 25th place for India, if both sources of this statistics are equally accurate. |
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dick fridg 24th November 2005 |
i can understand why man will be happy in Venezuela it has the highest beautiful women per capita in the world |
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Nick Jackalson 6th January 2006 |
Both Venezuela and Nigeria have one of the lowest prices of gasoline in the world. Running a car costs virtually nothing in those countries, which is enough to make anyone happy. Secondly, in Iceland, power in general is almost free, because the country generates all its power incredibly cheaply from hot springs, hydroelectric power stations, etc. So cheap energy and cheap gasoline in particular seem to be good indicators of happiness. |
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Ivan (The Netherlands) 11th October 2007 |
Ehmm, I believe that we can assume that every language has the word happiness, and that the tests carried out did adapt to the language of the country. I don't know how the researchers would overcome the problem of history of the country and generation of respondents, since these two variables affect their happiness considerably. |
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