{"id":11456,"date":"2021-03-19T17:55:57","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T17:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socialpanic.org\/?p=11456"},"modified":"2021-03-19T17:57:48","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T17:57:48","slug":"its-back-the-bogus-world-happiness-report-annual-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2021\/03\/19\/its-back-the-bogus-world-happiness-report-annual-announcement\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s back: The bogus World Happiness Report annual announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This amazingly bogus report makes the media rounds every year. Basically, the defined happiness as living in a Scandinavian country and amazingly, each year they select a Scandinavian country as having the world&#8217;s happiest people.<\/p>\n<p>I previously analyzed &#8211; and demolished &#8211; this bogus report <a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2016\/03\/17\/denmark-fairy-tales-is-denmark-the-happiest-country-because-of-this-no\/\">in a series of lengthy blog posts made in2016.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/finland-was-happiest-country-world-again-last-year-despite-covid-n1261526\">Finland was the world&#8217;s happiest country again last year despite Covid-19&#8217;s impact<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>On a related topic, my wife was called to jury duty this past week. She was not selected for the jury. During pre-jury selection questioning, the roughly 45 prospective jurors were asked about their trust and confidence in news sources. 100%, yes 100%, said they had no trust in the news media. Just 3 prospective jurors said they regularly used social media &#8211; a <em>majority<\/em> said they had quit social media.<\/p>\n<p>Where&#8217;s the news report on that sample survey?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bogus World Happiness Report is back. The news media loves to run stories about this annual nonsense report that defines happiness as living in a Scandinavian country. I analyzed and demolished this report back in 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lies","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}