Comments on: The Happiest Age

By: becky

becky — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:41:19 +0000

Interesting and sad how few people indicate they are happy in their present state. It is an interesting question to ponder. Each stage has happiness and joy and challenges. I feel today is the happiest place and age. (age 44)

By: Andreas

Andreas — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 10:38:21 +0000

PhilGo20: About $20.

By: PhilGo20

PhilGo20 — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:33:14 +0000

Very interesting. I think this is a nice survey and a very interesting topic but my comment is mostly geared toward your usage of Mechanical Turk. This just gave me quite a few ideas on how to use this service. Very, very interesting ! Thanks ! May i ask how much the whole thing cost you in the end ?

By: shukov

shukov — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 02:34:46 +0000

Probably around 5 or 6, before I understood how much this world sucked.

By: diet al

diet al — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:11:17 +0000

a good age is when the mortage is paid off, which i think for many would be between 45-50. then a big increase in disposable income

By: Nexialist.de » Blog Archive » Im besten Alter

Nexialist.de » Blog Archive » Im besten Alter — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:45:36 +0000

[...] heute bei AI-Playground gelernt das ich im glücklichsten Alter bin – jedenfall interpretier ich die Grafik mal [...]

By: Dreams

Dreams — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 21:20:42 +0000

From the looks of this graph, it seems like everything is downhill after 35 years of age.

By: sampat

sampat — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:23:51 +0000

childhood period is happiest for everyone . i think so

By: Zephyr

Zephyr — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:01:09 +0000

@Lena: I do not experience the time-rushing-faster-effect with increasing age (even if I’m just 21). Only one difference occures to me: When it is december Christmas is coming much faster than in my childhood :)

Socialpsychological studies indicate that the “general public” shows that old people are just a bit happier than younger people (and furthermore: happiness is not dependent of your gender or your [monetary] wealth [only in 'rich' nations -- in poorer nations monetary wealth _is_ an indicator for happiness]. Whereas happiness is dependent on relationships, being in an individualistic society, being in a society where the individual has many rights and being in a society where the economic differences between individuals are small.)

I will not give an answer to this question. Why should I pick an expected acme of happiness?
I talked with my friend Henk and his father during the time of the abitur examination. Henk’s father said: “Soon you’ll be going to university! This will be the happiest time of your lifes!”.
…very disconcerting statement…imho

By: HT

HT — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 01:54:00 +0000

I recently read an article (on the Net — perhaps Reuters, 6 months ago), which measured actual happiness of a large number of individuals ( I think it may have been a European study). I can’t recall what metrics were used. Like the individuals in you study, I would have supposed that most individuals would say they were happiest in the time of their physical and sexual acme, yet the study showed twin peaks of happiness (if my memory serves me right), peaking as young adults, then declining into middle age, only to rise again as the population passes age fifty. It continues to rise (surprisingly, to me) as the oldsters continue past age 60.