[Mare]

http://www.feelguide.com/2013/04/29/75-y...appy-life/

Very interesting study. For those who want a quick conclusion:

“The 75 years and twenty million dollars expended on the Study points to a five-word conclusion: Happiness is love. Full stop.”

[The Lizard of Oz]

It is pretty interesting. This paragraph caught my eye:

Quote:

As you can imagine, the study’s discoveries are bountiful, but the most significant finding of all is that “Alcoholism is a disorder of great destructive power.” In fact, alcoholism is the single strongest cause of divorce between the Grant Study men and their wives. Alcoholism was also found to be strongly coupled with neurosis and depression (which most often follows alcohol abuse, rather than preceding it). Together with cigarette smoking, alcoholism proves to be the #1 greatest cause of morbidity and death. And above a certain level, intelligence doesn’t prevent the damage.

[Que enspastic]

Quote:

Men who had ‘warm’ childhood relationships with their mothers took home $87,000 more per year than men whose mothers were uncaring.

I call BS on this "statistic". Where did they get it from? It would only make sense if it was average earnings over lifetime divided by number of years in earnings including property appreciation and stocks.

It wouldn't make sense if it was purely salary as that would mean men who have 'warm' relationships with their mothers are all on well above $100,000k per year and we know that's not true at all.

[Peregrine]

(11-30-2013 02:14 PM)Que enspastic Wrote:  

It wouldn't make sense if it was purely salary as that would mean men who have 'warm' relationships with their mothers are all on well above $100,000k per year and we know that's not true at all.

Not how averages work.

[Que enspastic]

Well to pull that average up to a 87,000k gap on salary alone you would need some of the mummies' boys to be earning hundreds of thousands or millions per year so that you could still have some of their compatriots earning a smaller than 87,000k gap on guys with bad mothers.

[Peregrine]

I actually agree with your initial post that they are probably taking into account capital gains and property appreciation etc (note their use of the phrase "took home"). I just couldn't resist the kneejerk correction.

[BigDave]

The problem with these things as always is that correlation is not causation.

People with "warm" relationships tend to earn more. Great, but maybe the warm relationships are a result of financial security and a bountiful material life.

[Valhalla]

Que they're Harvard men I'm sure they're all earning 100k+ in their 30s