Tue 22 Nov 2011
App Reviews and News
A new app has just been released that tells you when you’re the most happy?
Apparently the happiest time in people’s are 1:50 on Christmas day, this is the peak time for happiness when families traditionally gather around the table for dinner.
Christmas day is apparently undeniably the happiest day of the year and also the day people are most happy. Of course from country to country there are discrepancies , most notably in Britain where they experienced a spike in happiness on the day of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s wedding. People are their least happiness of January 31, at 8pm according to research.
The “Mappiness” project as it was referred to was initiated by George Mackerron under the umbrella of the London School of economics. Basically how the program worked was it required participants to record their activity, their location and their happiness up to five times day.
It receive millions of responses over more than a year. The results were transmitted in to what is referred to as a “hedonimeter that tracked the nation’s mood at every second through the day.
What the study did confirm is the commonly held belief that the population’s mood darkens during weekdays when most people are at work and improves as they approach the weekend. Through April we see a series of spikes as a result of holidays, then on the royal wedding day itself, there was a spike around 11am during the service and again at 1pm when William and Kate went out on the balcony.
Without further a due, below is a list of the activities that make people the most happy and the least happiness. Now I’m much validity there is to this list, but I could have told you that making love makes people the most happy without any experiment and saved them a lot of time.
Making love (+12.9)
Sport, exercise (+6.5)
Theatre, concert (+6.5)
Singing, performing (+5.9)
Exhibition, library (+5.6)
Bottom
Working, studying (-1.9)
Travel, commuting (-2.0)
Care for adults (-4.0)
Waiting, queueing (-4.1)
Sick in bed (-19.7)
Again whether this is true or not is questionable and I’m pretty sure most of us could have arrived at these conclusions without a study.
Christmas day is apparently undeniably the happiest day of the year and also the day people are most happy. Of course from country to country there are discrepancies , most notably in Britain where they experienced a spike in happiness on the day of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s wedding. People are their least happiness of January 31, at 8pm according to research.
The “Mappiness” project as it was referred to was initiated by George Mackerron under the umbrella of the London School of economics. Basically how the program worked was it required participants to record their activity, their location and their happiness up to five times day.
It receive millions of responses over more than a year. The results were transmitted in to what is referred to as a “hedonimeter that tracked the nation’s mood at every second through the day.
What the study did confirm is the commonly held belief that the population’s mood darkens during weekdays when most people are at work and improves as they approach the weekend. Through April we see a series of spikes as a result of holidays, then on the royal wedding day itself, there was a spike around 11am during the service and again at 1pm when William and Kate went out on the balcony.
Without further a due, below is a list of the activities that make people the most happy and the least happiness. Now I’m much validity there is to this list, but I could have told you that making love makes people the most happy without any experiment and saved them a lot of time.
Making love (+12.9)
Sport, exercise (+6.5)
Theatre, concert (+6.5)
Singing, performing (+5.9)
Exhibition, library (+5.6)
Bottom
Working, studying (-1.9)
Travel, commuting (-2.0)
Care for adults (-4.0)
Waiting, queueing (-4.1)
Sick in bed (-19.7)
Again whether this is true or not is questionable and I’m pretty sure most of us could have arrived at these conclusions without a study.
