Opinion: A Happiness Poll

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Opinion: A Happiness Poll

Every year or so someone does a poll of the world’s happiest countries. Finland is almost always at the top of the list. I don’t pretend to understand the exact methodology nor statistical analysis in general, but Finland has ranked happiest country in the world six times in a row now. Not bad for a place that’s frigid and dark large chunks of the year. The pollsters appear to have skipped much of the Caribbean.

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