Want To Be Happy? Get Some Danish DNA

Saturday, July 19, 2014 - 07:10 in Mathematics & Economics

They say money can't buy happiness. Can genetics? Some people seem to be happy no matter what. If you visit many places in Africa, even when the existence may seem hard to Europeans or Americans, a lot of people are quite happy. The key could be genetics say....economists. Why not economists? We let sociologists and anthropologists make all kinds of claims and they don't understand statistics anywhere near as well as the economists from the University of Warwick Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy. read more

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