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"Patrick Baylis, a fifth-year PhD candidate in agricultural and resource economics at the University of California at Berkeley, recently did a study... He detailed his efforts in a working paper released last month, and the results are fascinating."
"He found that, compared with a day when the high temperature is 72.5 degrees, a day with a high temperature of 90 degrees makes the typical person experience a drop in happiness similar to the drop in happiness between Sunday and Monday."
Bolded is a GREAT ANALOGY!
I like they factored this into the study...
"He also used a measurement based on whether or tweets contained profanities (with the understanding that cusses generally imply negative emotion) and an algorithm that attempted to measure the tone of a tweet based on the emoticons it contained — , , , etc."
"I'll discuss the left half of the chart in a second — for now,focus on the right, showing a continual drop in happiness as high temperatures rise above 70 or so degrees."
"Patrick Baylis, a fifth-year PhD candidate in agricultural and resource economics at the University of California at Berkeley, recently did a study... He detailed his efforts in a working paper released last month, and the results are fascinating."
"He found that, compared with a day when the high temperature is 72.5 degrees, a day with a high temperature of 90 degrees makes the typical person experience a drop in happiness similar to the drop in happiness between Sunday and Monday."
Bolded is a GREAT ANALOGY!
I like they factored this into the study...
"He also used a measurement based on whether or tweets contained profanities (with the understanding that cusses generally imply negative emotion) and an algorithm that attempted to measure the tone of a tweet based on the emoticons it contained — , , , etc."
"I'll discuss the left half of the chart in a second — for now,focus on the right, showing a continual drop in happiness as high temperatures rise above 70 or so degrees."
Peoples here dont Agree,they like Beach and Sunny weather,and when its raining,they are angry.
I find 70~75°F temp with 50~55°F dew point is a perfect condition for humans, so I believe what the graph says.
Yup. And that's pretty much what the graph says. 55-70 is a happy medium for most.. 80 looks the same as 30. Then past 80F and you'll find more unhappy folks then not.
Cool study I thought even though I dont fit into the less happy below 40°F crowd
Is that measuring happiness or frustration? There might be those that get happier with 80°F, but wouldn't show anger at cooler temperatures, so won't show up. I think this measures more what temperatures anger people.
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