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Read more...In October, Facebook’s data scientists began using status updates to create a rough measure of the happiness expressed by English Speakers in the United States. Now, the company is expanding its index to three other English-speaking nations: U.K., Australia, and Canada.
“Measuring how well-off, happy or satisfied with life the citizens of a nation are is part of the Gross National Happiness movement,” the company stated a bit self-importantly in a blog post last October. “When people in their status updates use more positive words--or fewer negative words--then that day as a whole is counted as happier than usual.”
While the kind of temporary sentiment expressed in status updates is a pretty suspect indicator of true happiness, the project is yielding some entertaining findings:
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