FW: [Buddha-l] Re: Republicans are Happier?

[Jackhat1 at aol.com]

In a message dated 2/23/2008 10:22:37 P.M. Central Standard Time,  
jkirk at spro.net writes:

My view  as well, based on what I've read about issues in gathering
information via  questionnaires, in constructing questionnaires, and so on.
This is why I  couldn't consider any so-called "happiness" survey, including
the Pew  survey under discussion, reliable.
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Dan Gilbert, the Harvard psychology professor, has written extensively on  
happiness. His book Stumbling on Happiness has lots of footnotes on  methodology 
and addresses the problem of how to determine if a person is really  happy.
 
I have read of studies using brain waves to get at the true feeling under  
the gloss people put  on them.
 
Jack 



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