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    [OC] Glück kommt nicht mit einer Bräune


    [OC] Glück kommt nicht mit einer Bräune

    Von TaskImpressive4289

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    1. TaskImpressive4289 on

      Data: Wikipedia (List of cities by sunshine duration)/World Happiness Report

      Tools: created in R and ggplot2, edited in Adobe Illustrator

    2. TaskImpressive4289 on

      Disclaimer: the main audience of this plot is people who have lived in Europe and/or have some sense of humor 🙂

    3. xD3I on

      So rich people can vacation in the more sunshine countries when feeling sad to feel better, whereas the more sunshine but poorer people are stuck?

    4. Boris_Ignatievich on

      Most miserable country with less than about 1700 sun, you’ll never sing that

    5. KATOFFELL on

      yeah, happiness comes with a good income, go figure why in this money driven world :/

    6. ralphonsob on

      Ah, the Switzerlands. Like the Netherlands but at higher altitudes. More Switzery than Nethery.

    7. w1n5t0nM1k3y on

      The 24 hours of sunlight in the northern countries makes up for the lack of sun in the winter. Go into hibernation for a few months in the winter and enjoy the sun in the summer from 4AM to 10 PM.

    8. bastalepasta on

      Now plot wealth on this…

      What you’ll find is that almost all the unhappy countries are former Soviet bloc and have high poverty

      Correlation does not equal causation…

      Edited to remove suicide rates because unhappy countries do have higher suicide rates… Except Finland which is both happy and suicidal.

    12. Ancient_Storm818 on

      Does the graph suggest that lack of sunshine might magically solve all of your problems??

    13. _frat_dad on

      Funny enough, those top the happiest places are some of the most racist countries in Europe 😂

    14. Deqnkata on

      Its like correlation is not causation … And there are like a billion other factors for “happiness”. Now do the same chart with depression and suicide rates and see how “happy” that looks 🙂

    15. Olii13 on

      this is a simple correlation plot. you must attempt a causality estimate to see if sunshine has any meaningful impact on happiness.

    16. rik-huijzer on

      Seems there is a large overlap between happiness scores and freedom scores: https://freedomhouse.org/countries/freedom-world/scores.

      To people saying that the people are happy just because they are more wealthy, the book Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu & James Robinson argues that freedom is necessary for wealth. History has shown that it is very difficult to combine a dictatorship (low freedom) with wealth. In most cases, the dictatorship will start giving monopolies to friends of the dictatorship which in turn makes the population poorer. For example, South Africa has constant blackouts since the people who run the energy monopoly rather spend the money on villa’s than on maintaining power plants. Also, dictatorships often do not believe in property rights which means that people often will not benefit from their innovation. The book gives examples from North Korea or African countries were people actively decide to not get better tools since the tool would end up in the hands of the dictator anyway.

    17. bruhbelacc on

      When you don’t have sun every day, you work harder and become richer. You also learn to find joy in the things you can do on your own or at home.

    19. jore-hir on

      Plot suicide rates instead of “happiness”. That’s more objective.

    20. Curious-Look6042 on

      Lol yeah lets just ignore the 285939362 other variables at play here

    21. cyclingzealot on

      The happier nordic ones also have less innequality. [Richard Wilkinson: How innequality harms societies](https://youtu.be/cZ7LzE3u7Bw). The surprise of that TED talk is that even richer people are negatively affected by innequality.

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