I am happier today than I was yesterday. I might be less happy tomorrow. Such is the ebb and flow of life. Trying to extrapolate such individual experiences into a snapshot of the national psyche is silly, but it constitutes almost the whole of social science these days, with millions and millions spent on pointless studies, such as this one:
The researchers surveyed 1,340 people about negative life events and found that the 2004 respondents had more troubles than those who were surveyed in 1991, the last time the study was done.
What a waste of time.
