Meh... I can't really put my finger on it, but something just seems off (or unrigorous) with this. I feel like if I wanted to come up with some kind of metric

Meh... I can't really put my finger on it, but something just seems off (or unrigorous) with this. I feel like if I wanted to come up with some kind of metric to demonstrate that southern or northern states are the happiest (over western), I probably could. In other words, start with my results and then find some data to support them.