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Conservatives outperform liberals in self-reported happiness and mental health when controlling for demographics.
by bitlax 1y ago
Conservatives outperform liberals in self-reported happiness and mental health when controlling for demographics.
- Braxton1980 1y agoWhat demographics and what does it mean to control them for statistics?
- bitlax 1y ago> What demographics All of the ones you'd see most commonly: age, sex, race, religion, level of education, marital status, etc. > control https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlling_for_a_variable https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlling_for_a_variable
- abraxas 1y agoIt's probably directly linked to their higher level of religiosity.
- bitlax 1y agoThis is observed among atheists.
- pixelready 1y ago“Outperform” is a strange way of putting this. When did happiness and mental health become a contest?
- bitlax 1y agoHappiness and health are objective goods, in this case quantified.
- jdiff 1y agoThe question posed to you was "When did it become a contest?"
- bitlax 1y agoAre you looking for a date?
- jdiff 1y agoNo, it's rhetorical to ask you "Why are you framing it as if it ever was?" If happiness were a competition we should all be lining up for lobotomies and buying/finding as much sand as we can to bury our heads as deep as we can. But it's not. Conservatives haven't cracked any sort of code, and this line of questions was intended to draw you to this realization of your own accord. Instead, this.
- bitlax 1y ago> "Why are you framing it as if it ever was?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45383599 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45383599 > If happiness were a competition we should all be lining up for lobotomies You can prevent cancers by jumping off a bridge. I wouldn't advise it. > Conservatives haven't cracked any sort of code except the, like, happiness code