Could our parents be right – could it be that video games are bad for you?
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20 August 2001
Ed Deiner studied global happiness and finds that (adjusting for income) Asians tend to be more unhappy and Scandinavians seem to be the happiest (so why do they kill themselves so often?). Also, interestingly:
“We find that people become more satisfied with life when they have a baby, but then drop back to their previous levels after a year or two, and perhaps even go a bit lower than their previous baseline.”
