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25 Apr 09

There are (at least) three reasons why happiness is correlated within social networks.
Interestingly, the same issue of the BMJ contained a very careful article by Ethan Cohen-Cole and Jason Fletcher making precisely this point. They employ a pretty cheeky research strategy: if you want to show that a research design is silly, show that it leads to silly conclusions.
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- researchers can too easily draw false conclusions about contagion

So if it becomes a collective phenomenon does that mean the government will tax it, regulate it, encourage it through social engineering techniques?

People’s happiness depends on the happinessof others with whom they are connected. This provides furtherjustification for seeing happiness, like health, as a collectivephenomenon

follow up for a piece comparing 7 degrees of separation and 3 degrees and the spread of happiness to the spread of information in the Borg

We recently published a paper in the British Medical Journal
we found that each additional happy friend increases a person's probability of being happy by about 9%. For comparison, having an extra $5,000 in income (in 1984 dollars) increased the probability of being happy by about 2%.
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- One of our efforts has involved the examination of a group of 1,700 college students who are interconnected in Facebook.

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