Um no offense John but studies can be doctored to look like anything someone
wants to prove. They start with a simple question: "Are you happy since
you won the lottery?" If they say no, continue on with the study. If
they say yes, "Thanks for your time. Congratulations on your new found
money!"
> ----------
> From: John Kim[SMTP:kim@...]
> Reply To: eqbards@onelist.com
> Sent: Friday, July 23, 1999 2:00 PM
> To: 'eqbards@onelist.com'
> Subject: RE: [eqbards] Getting a good item! and selling it
>
> From: John Kim <kim@...>
>
> On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Michael W. Steele wrote:
> >
> > >Most lottery winners in real life are not happier than before they won.
>
> >
> > Hmph, I won $570,603.54 in the 1987 Florida Lottery. I'm
> > happy as a F***ing lark =)
> >
> > LOL, sorry -- couldn't pass up the humor I saw in that
> > obvious line of bullshit John fed you. No offense John,
>
> There have been several psychological studies assessing the
> happiness of lottery winners. Aside from a high immediately
> after winning, most revert back to their former levels of
> happiness.
>
> http://mentalhelp.net/articles/happy1.htm
> http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/baschap4.htm
> http://www.apa.org/releases/lifevent.html
> http://www.hope.edu/academic/psychology/myerstxt/happy/happy2.html
> http://www.exeter.ac.uk/~SEGLea/ecopsy/happy.html
>
> Some of these pages are long, so just do a search on
> "lottery." The last one has references to journal articles if
> you want to research it further on your own.
>
> --
> John H. Kim
> kim@...
>
>
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