Thinking about moving to CLT? Interesting article (how much, university)

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We get a lot of posts asking is others "like it here" . . . so when I read this, I found it very interesting and thought you all may, too. Seems sharing our ideas on this forum really IS meaningful!


Other People's Experiences Help You Predict Your Own Happiness, Study Says

By Bill Hendrick
WebMD Health News

Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD

March 19, 2009 -- The next time you're having trouble deciding whether this or that will make you happy, don't fret too long - just go ask a stranger.

His or her experience may be more informative than your own best guess, says a new Harvard University study.

"If you want to know how much you will enjoy an experience, you are better off knowing how much someone else enjoyed it than knowing anything about the experience itself," Daniel Gilbert, PhD, a professor of psychology at Harvard, says in a news release.

The study, which appears in the journal Science, notes that previous research has shown that people often have trouble predicting what they'll like and how much they'll like it.

Gilbert and a team of researchers set out to eliminate that kind of fickleness from the calculus of the question by asking people to predict how much they'd enjoy a future event that they knew nothing about -- except how much a total stranger had enjoyed it.

When in Doubt, Seek Opinion of Others - Mental Health Disorders on MedicineNet.com (http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=98663 - broken link)