Friday, March 19, 2010

Does Education Make you Happy?

While we all know that correlation does not imply causality, the strong correlation between level of education and subjective feeling of well-being is certainly interesting. Check out the following blog post and take a look at the scatter plot of level of eduction vs. happiness.

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/18/does-education-make-you-happy/?scp=10&sq=happiness&st=cse

Does education cause happiness? Does happiness lead to more education? Are there 3rd or 4th variables which cause both happiness and a higher level of eduction?

What do you think?