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fclbrokle

Studying Happiness

May 15, 2009 01:03

The Atlantic has a fantastic article out about a longitudinal study tracing the path of 200-odd graduates from Harvard in the 1930s. They've been studying them through the present-day, doing surveys and interviews, physical examinations, and more ( Read more... )

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easwaran May 15 2009, 08:21:58 UTC

"By any scientific metric, this study has no right to be providing anything useful, and yet, it is deeply insightful ( ... )

fclbrokle May 15 2009, 19:59:55 UTC

Heh, yup --- I've had this same discussion, in LJ comments at some previous point. We're entirely agreed; you just have to think carefully about how to interpret studies with different designs.

As far as I know, no one else has access to the full data, but I'm not sure. I think there are very very big confidentiality issues. I think the data is set to become public some time after the last person in the study dies.