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"With a score of 6.25, we found the happiest city to be Napa, CA, due to a relative abundance of such happy words as “restaurant”, “wine”, and even “cheers”, al
by gavanwoolery 14y ago
"With a score of 6.25, we found the happiest city to be Napa, CA, due to a relative abundance of such happy words as “restaurant”, “wine”, and even “cheers”, along with a lack of profanity."
I grew up in Napa so I know something was off here. While adults love it, most kids find it boring or even hate growing up there.
Tweets about wine != happiness. Lack of profanity != happiness. Examples - "The wine sucked" or "Vegas is f*cking awesome!" This is an interesting study of vocabulary, but hardly a measure of happiness.
- barce 14y agoYes, it's really more a measure of non-profane, Epicurean words.
- gavanwoolery 14y agoOn that note, I think a more accurate measure would be to look for two emoticons: ":)" and ":("
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- icoder 14y agoYou do not necessarily need a perfect 1-on-1 relationship between the used words and 'happiness', as long as this 'noise' is canceled out in the same way between areas. And that's where there might be a problem, the results may (perhaps partially) reflect a structural difference of 'use of language' between areas.
- sliverstorm 14y agoIt seems inherently biased, anyway. Wouldn't you expect Napa, which is basically wine country, to have a higher frequency of the word "wine"?