On Sunday, May 31, as the protests around George Floyd and civil unrest took hold, we had our saddest day ever according to something called the Twitter Hedonometer, an index that has been measuring our daily “happiness” since 2008. Developed by UVM researchers, the Hedonometer looks at a large random sample of English language tweets […]
Happiness
Things Are Better Than We Think…
Ready for some good news before the Holidays? Here it is: The world is happier than you think, and things probably are not as bad as they seem. What do I mean? Take a look at the chart here from the excellent site Our World in Data. It compares how happy people are with how […]