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Harvard Study Started in 1938 on What Determines a Man's Happiness
11-30-2013, 10:24 AM
It is pretty interesting. This paragraph caught my eye:
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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.
same old shit, sixes and sevens Shaft...
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Harvard Study Started in 1938 on What Determines a Man's Happiness
11-30-2013, 02:27 PM
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.
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Harvard Study Started in 1938 on What Determines a Man's Happiness
11-30-2013, 02:32 PM
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.
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Harvard Study Started in 1938 on What Determines a Man's Happiness
11-30-2013, 05:10 PM
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.
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Harvard Study Started in 1938 on What Determines a Man's Happiness
11-30-2013, 05:48 PM
Que they're Harvard men I'm sure they're all earning 100k+ in their 30s
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