#  Jezebel, Cassandra, and the happiness gap 

 





October 05, 2007

 

 

On a lighter note this Friday afternoon, there has been an interesting and largely good-natured debate on various blogs in response to a recent New York Times article on the happiness gap (or the change in the happiness gap, or reversal, or something) between men and women ([He's happier, she's less so](http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/26/business/26leonhardt.html?em&ex=1191729600&en=823bad067cf7aa99&ei=5070)). Much of the discussion has been on the substantive significance of the results and how those results are likely to be interpreted by the (non-statistically minded) public. This [post](http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004987.html) at [Language Log](http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/) summarizes the debate and provides links to previous entries on both sides. Most of these are quite serious, while a few are (ahem) less so. On the other hand, any time that Stata code appears on a pop culture website, it is worth noting...

Posted by [Mike Kellermann](http://www.iq.harvard.edu/blog/sss/archives/author/mike-kellermann/) at October 5, 2007 4:07 PM



 

 

 



 

 

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