Happy with chronicle in the happiest state!
If you’re bright and you undergo it and you really want to exhibit it, well, we’ll meet adopt you don’t springy in West Virginia. Because West Virginians, according to a analyse conducted , in part, by town (a group that knows something about surveying), are the least bright people in the U.S.
Kentucky was meet behindhand (or is it in face of?) West Colony in cost of relative happiness/misery.
The happiest land in 2010?
That’s Hawaii. Followed by Wyoming, North Dakota, Alaska and Colorado. (There goes the meliorate defy hypothesis!)
The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index is an annual analyse conducted over a year. In 2010, they interviewed 352,840 people who were at least 18 eld older questions that lapse into fivesome assorted categories, as LiveScience explains:
[L]ife assessment (self-evaluation about your present chronicle situation and expected digit in fivesome years); emotive health; impact surround (such as employ satisfaction); fleshly health; flourishing behavior; and base admittance (access to health care, a doctor, a safe locate to exercise and walk, as substantially as accord satisfaction)
The drawing were crunched and apiece land was presented a reason discover of 100 points.
Here‘s the itemize of states, along with their scores.
1.    Hawaii: 71.0
2.    Wyoming: 69.2
3.    North Dakota: 68.4
4.    Alaska: 68.3
5.    Colorado: 68.0
6.    Minnesota: 68.0
7.    South Dakota: 68.0
8.    Utah: 67.9
9.    Connecticut: 67.9
10. Massachusetts: 67.8
11. Nebraska: 67.8
12. Maryland: 67.5
13. Washington: 67.5
14. Montana: 67.3
15. Kansas: 67.2
16. New Hampshire: 67.2
17. Vermont: 67.1
18. California: 67.0
19. Iowa: 66.9
20. Idaho: 66.9
21. New Mexico: 66.7
22. Virginia: 66.7
23. Wisconsin: 66.7
24. New Jersey: 66.6
25. Maine: 66.4
26. Illinois: 66.3
27. Oregon: 66.3
28. Texas: 66.3
29. Arizona: 66.2
30. Pennsylvania: 66.1
31. Georgia: 66.1
32. New York: 65.9
33. Rhode Island: 65.7
34. Missouri: 65.6
35. South Carolina: 65.3
36. North Carolina: 65.1
37. Florida: 65.1
38. Oklahoma: 64.9
39. Indiana: 64.8
40. Tennessee: 64.8
41. Michigan: 64.6
42. Louisiana: 64.3
43. Delaware: 64.2
44. Nevada: 64.2
45. Ohio: 63.8
46. Alabama: 63.7
47. Arkansas: 63.7
48. Mississippi: 63.0
49. Kentucky: 61.9
50. West Virginia: 61.7
Notice that inferior than digit point distinguished some of the states, but the happiest land — Hawaii, outscored least-happy West Colony by exclusive 9.1 points. So either we Americans aren’t every that happy, or maybe we’re not every that unhappy. Interpretation is category of a render half-empty or half-full thing.
Or maybe the conclusions you entertainer depend on where you’re from.
Do you springy in a super-happy state? (Answer crapper be supported on geographics or disposition, whichever).
Photo: theogeo via flickr
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