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i will agree that florida is never really in a bad mood.
as far as happiest state, it depends on what you mean by “happier.” utah actually has more occurrences of the highest happiness rating in this study and kentucky has the most.
utah is happier than idaho, from what i can tell (i THINK utah is a trapezoid tilted to the right from horizontal while idaho is a triangle with concave upper-left and upper-right sides and a convex bottom). the number of times a level of happiness occurs, by state, going from highest to lowest happiness levels, follows. two weighting regimens were also used, the first gives the highest rating an 8 and the lowest rating a 1 while the second goes from positive to negative 4.
using the first regimen, utah is happiest, with a score of 163, followed by kentucky (151), florida (149), and idaho (145). under the second regimen, utah and kentucky tie (with 51) followed, again, by florida (49) and idaho (47).
hm. just thought of a possible reason for the disparate results of this experiment compared to other research, re: kentucky. looking at the map of how many tweets were analyzed by county (above the 14:00/15:00 maps), it looks like a small number of counties are disproportionately represented. maybe the residents of that county/those counties are overall MUCH happier than the rest of the state. alternately, the residents of kentucky in general (or that county/those counties in particular) do not tweet when they are unhappy but DO when they are happy. same effect calls into question the assumption that these maps reflect how HAPPY the states’ residents are. care should be taken to identify these data as applying to how people are tweeting.
Correlation does not imply causation. Maryland is only happier than ambivalent between 4 and 8 AM. Probably due to the weather, which is crappy year round, but also because everyone who works in D.C. and lives in Maryland is probably happiest when they’re visualizing their day, followed by an immediate nose dive when their hour long commutes in terrible weather get underway with the evening bringing only greater defeat through weak sports team. Here we go, MD.
i live in Florida
we seem to happy ALLOT…
or could that be because people ‘tweet’ more on vacation?
“omg followers, about to ride the tea cups at Disney world!”
i wonder how true to life this experiment really is…
Is that heart-shaped state below Michigan Kentucky? Why are they so darn happy all the time? I’m from Maine, and we’re only happy in the early morning. Probably because they make our state so small you can barely see us on cartograms.
The fatties in the south must have something right… Or only the rich white folks in the south actually use twitter to express their happiness while the disgruntled mijority(hybrid of minority and majority) are too poor to own a phone that doesn’t work like a walkie talkie. I think they own those damn things just to piss normal people off.
First! oh, yeah… that’s cool too.
I love how FL is never really in a bad mood
They’re still sour about the 2000 election.
Overall I think Idaho is the happiest state, Florida would be a close second.
i will agree that florida is never really in a bad mood.
as far as happiest state, it depends on what you mean by “happier.” utah actually has more occurrences of the highest happiness rating in this study and kentucky has the most.
utah is happier than idaho, from what i can tell (i THINK utah is a trapezoid tilted to the right from horizontal while idaho is a triangle with concave upper-left and upper-right sides and a convex bottom). the number of times a level of happiness occurs, by state, going from highest to lowest happiness levels, follows. two weighting regimens were also used, the first gives the highest rating an 8 and the lowest rating a 1 while the second goes from positive to negative 4.
using the first regimen, utah is happiest, with a score of 163, followed by kentucky (151), florida (149), and idaho (145). under the second regimen, utah and kentucky tie (with 51) followed, again, by florida (49) and idaho (47).
this coincides with other studies i’ve read on the subject – at least as far as utah being happiest. strangely, this flies in the face of other research showing kentucky to be one of the least happiest. http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/10/the-happiest-states-of-america/
Florida
G3: 5 (*8=40) (*4=20)
G2: 7 (*7=49) (*3=21)
G1: 4 (*6=24) (*2=8)
W: 4 (*5=20) (*1=4)
Y: 4 (*4=16) (*-1=-4)
R1:
R2:
R3:
+________________
149 49
Idaho
G3: 3 (*8=24) (*4=12)
G2: 9 (*7=63) (*3=27)
G1: 5 (*6=30) (*2=10)
W: 5 (*5=25) (*1=5)
Y:
R1:
R2: 1 (*2=2) (*-3=-3)
R3: 1 (*1=1) (*-4=-4)
+________________
145 47
Kentucky
G3: 6 (*8=48) (*4=24)
G2: 8 (*7=56) (*3=24)
G1: 4 (*6=24) (*2=8)
W: 2 (*5=10) (*1=2)
Y: 1 (*4=4) (*-1=-1)
R1: 3 (*3=9) (*-2=-6)
R2:
R3:
+________________
151 51
Utah
G3: 4 (*8=32) (*4=16)
G2: 6 (*7=56) (*3=18)
G1: 8 (*6=48) (*2=16)
W: 4 (*5=20) (*1=4)
Y: 1 (*4=4) (*-1=-1)
R1: 1 (*3=3) (*-2=-2)
R2:
R3:
+________________
163 51
hm. just thought of a possible reason for the disparate results of this experiment compared to other research, re: kentucky. looking at the map of how many tweets were analyzed by county (above the 14:00/15:00 maps), it looks like a small number of counties are disproportionately represented. maybe the residents of that county/those counties are overall MUCH happier than the rest of the state. alternately, the residents of kentucky in general (or that county/those counties in particular) do not tweet when they are unhappy but DO when they are happy. same effect calls into question the assumption that these maps reflect how HAPPY the states’ residents are. care should be taken to identify these data as applying to how people are tweeting.
Looks like West Virginia is freakin’ miserable ALL the TIME…
Man, New York is pissed all the time. Is this the reason i am so angry?
Oh wait, causation does not imply correlation.
Correlation does not imply causation. Maryland is only happier than ambivalent between 4 and 8 AM. Probably due to the weather, which is crappy year round, but also because everyone who works in D.C. and lives in Maryland is probably happiest when they’re visualizing their day, followed by an immediate nose dive when their hour long commutes in terrible weather get underway with the evening bringing only greater defeat through weak sports team. Here we go, MD.
man, washington state is kinda grumpy, and only gets better at around 6-10 pm.
and apparently we hate the night, except at twelve. ha ha.
Unhappy Tenessesse is unhappy.
Maybe because you spelled it “Tenessesse”.
i live in Florida
we seem to happy ALLOT…
or could that be because people ‘tweet’ more on vacation?
“omg followers, about to ride the tea cups at Disney world!”
i wonder how true to life this experiment really is…
oops.
seem to be* happy
and indeed *a lot
just sayin’.
Question: is west coast weather just better than east coast weather? If so, that would also explain a helluvalot.
Truth: 2 and 3am is the worst time for me, as a Georgian.
Is that heart-shaped state below Michigan Kentucky? Why are they so darn happy all the time? I’m from Maine, and we’re only happy in the early morning. Probably because they make our state so small you can barely see us on cartograms.
The cartogram is a bad idea. What’s the point of giving us data by state, then morphing the map so we can’t tell which state the data came from?
between 14:00 and 16:00 just about everyone is pissed.
“higher is happier” hahahaha
The fatties in the south must have something right… Or only the rich white folks in the south actually use twitter to express their happiness while the disgruntled mijority(hybrid of minority and majority) are too poor to own a phone that doesn’t work like a walkie talkie. I think they own those damn things just to piss normal people off.
For the East coast being less happy: Blame D.C.