Let's start off with the overall map. There's a little bit of a trend for their three categories of high, middle, low. The Midwest seems to be loooowwww. As a matter of fact if you look at the charts with the numbers, in the lowest 10 states are Missouri (me), Arkansas (Jay), and Ohio (Matt-man).
So what does this mean? Besides not much. The article says some of it's based on - enough money for food, shelter, and medicine. Hawaii is number one? Isn't it one of the highest cost of living states there are? Maybe with gas prices going up we'll all get happier!
And then there are the numbers themselves. Hawaii 70.2, Nevada 65.0. A spread of 5 points? Lets see what the margin of error is...
For results based on the total sample of national adults, one can say with 95% confidence that the maximum margin of sampling error is ±1 percentage point. The margin of sampling error for most states is ±1 to ±2 percentage points, but is as high as ±4 points for states with smaller population sizes...
So 95% of the survey is probably ± 1 to 4 percent accurate. So basically ..... EVERY STATE IS THE SAME!!!!!
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There is also the "Where I Want to Be or Live" factor, which is highly individual and not easily quantified. Still, Hawaii sounds nice. I could be a surfer girl!
Still....I'd rather the state where I live as near the top, rather than the rock bottom. But not enough to live in some places.
EPT - I hear the Beach Boys singing 'Little Surfer Girl'.
D - I hear Johnny Horton singing 'North to Alaska'. Pack your long undies.
NJ is so tiny on the map I couldn't tell what shade of happy it was and I'm too unhappy to look into it any further
D - NJ is in the middle. Neither happy nor sad. Just confused.
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