Charting the Depths

In my middle management experience with surveys, rankings, research, etc... I have found over time that the results don't mean much except in very general ways and are very rarely accurate in specific ways.

This whole ranking research is absurd if we really think about it and if you have ever been a participant in a survey by big names consulting firms, like one that begins with K, you get to see how the data gathering part is full of pitfalls.

However the whole survey industry will swear under torture that their process provides "meaningful accurate results".

The answer to that is how come 90% of the World's top analysts, economists, etc... failed to predict the dot com crash, the housing bubble and the recent financial meltdown. This last example is not as unrelated to surveys as we may think because they are both the product of the same kind of thinking.

2 clues here: garbage in / garbage out and the other is the proper identification of variables is very tricky and beyond the grasp of most survey / research makers. Most analysts and consultants are are not competent global thinkers and do not understand the relationships between variables; they are mostly trained as reductive linear thinkers.

A person's "feelings of pleasantness" may not mean much if anything. This exercise from the University of Warwick, in reality, may not mean much either because it is not objective and it was not based on scientific formula. BUT, the collective mental health of the citizens of each the 50 States can be looked at objectively and scientifically. Occurences of depression, suicide rates, substance abuse and etc. for each state can be looked at on a per capita basis and a ranking of the states can be derived from these statistics. This yields an objective ranking of the states much different than the subjective ranking based on individuals interruption of their happiness in their habitat.

Hawaii is one of the top three states for happiness? I guess they're only seeing it in the eyes of a tourist staying at some secluded beach resort. Hawaii is the most hateful, racist state in all of the U.S., a state full of very UNhappy campers. A state where locals fret and hate atop rocks in the Pacific while they haole-sling each other when they're ALL haoles themselves. "Haole" (pronounced "how-lee" is an innocent Native Hawaiian word that has only two meanings, no more: "foreigner" or "out of breath") but Hawaii's dominant Asian groups have taken this word out of context, misconstrued and distorted its true meaning to their contempt for whites. The word "haole" is most often applied negatively to referring to whites: not at all what Native Hawaiians meant it to mean. Then, with all the haole mud-slinging is this farcical heir of "aloha" (meaning either love, hello or goodbye in Hawaiian); the state's nickname is even the "Aloha State." "Aloha" is another word that they took from Native Hawaiians to capitalize off of and has no real true meaning in the Hawaii of the new millenium. Hawaii wants Caucasians as tourists but not as residents or military personnel. Thinking of vacationing there? Think again. You'd have a better time, and more for your money, in Costa Rica, the Caribbean, and even Mexico or Belize. Besides, you wouldn't have to spend as much time flying to and from Central America and the Caribbean as you would to unhappy Hawaii.

Actually it isn't sunshine it is Democrat Malaise.

Of the 10 unhappiest states, all 10 Blue states voting for Obama in 2008.

Of the 10 happiest states, 7 out of 10 are Red states.

That is why the economy is as bad as it is. Obama wants more Americans to be unhappy. The more unhappy we are the more votes he will get in 2012.