Showing posts with label funny study. Show all posts
Showing posts with label funny study. Show all posts

Sunday, June 5, 2011

Fun Fact of the Day

Turns out that China is the happiest place on earth! They alone managed to a perfect score of 100 points on a new global happiness index, with the U.S. coming in at 203rd place with only 3 points. Of course, the study was done by the North Korea's Chosun Central Television, so it might be a bit biased... I actually do think it is interesting that China was ahead of North Korea, which came in second with 98 points. Even more interesting to me is that the U.S. was ranked below South Korea in the rankings, which came in 152nd. What does it say, if anything, about the U.S.'s standing in the world that a blatantly biased study done in one country would rank us worse than that country's main "rival?" Is it a good thing, representing the fact that America is a symbol of freedom and democracy, neither of which are particularly embraced by the North Korean regime? Or is it a bad thing, representing the fact that in the eyes of many the United States is nothing more than the world's bully? Or does it mean nothing at all, just a random fluke of a BS "study"?