the Tracking Happiness team
All vegans are negative, pretentious, unhappy and angry protestors. Or at least, that’s what the stereotypes have you believe. But is this actually true? It turns out to be the opposite: vegans are both happier than meat-eaters and more liked than what’s commonly believed.
If you were asked to describe what happiness means to you without actually using the word “happiness”, what would you answer? We asked over a thousand people this question and recorded the answers. As a result, we found a number of striking contrasts between different demographic groups.
How does the happiness of a country compare to its response to COVID-19? This data analysis is performed to shed light on how countries responded aroudn the world, and how it’s potentially influenced our happiness.
Men are 250% more likely to associate sex with happiness than women are, according to our study. This is based on the answers of 1,147 male and female respondents in a large-scale survey.
When you consider happiness and look at it from a distance, you will find that there are 3 things that can determine your happiness. Any source of happiness (or unhappiness) can be tied back to one of these factors. Our new study has found how much these factors are believed to contribute to our happiness, by asking 1,155 people from around the world.
It is widely known that happiness can both be a result of our circumstances or our internal state of mind. But how much of our happiness is genetic? Our new survey has found that 25% of our happiness is believed to be genetic. Here are all the details!
Roughly 35% of our happiness is determined by external circumstances. This is 3.5x more than what was concluded in a 2005 study. Our new study suggests that a much bigger part of our happiness is circumstantial.
How much of our happiness is determined by our internal state of mind? A popular 2005 paper says it’s 40%. We studied this topic and found some very interesting results!
Can we control our happiness and how does this affect us? We studied these questions in our Tracking Happiness survey, and found some very interesting results. Here’s what you need to know!
We recently conducted a survey amongst the audience of Tracking Happiness (that’s you!) Our goal? To provide more objective data on topics that are often quoted throughout the internet. Here are the results.