STUDY: Want ‘sustained happiness’? Get religion.

[Mr.wizard]

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Hey , I'm just going by the link he posted explaining what the survey found. I will change my wording from the study being BS to the analysis of the study being BS.

You could have read the paper abstract (which he linked to) and that alone would have told you where the data came from. And the data is clear that Religion is the only social activity of the ones studied that had a positive health outcome across all areas of Europe for the participants in the study. Although there was some limited benefit for some of the others noting that data-mining the data will result in eventually finding a false-positive (a positive association by chance), so they cannot then decide to break it down to the per-country level as that wouldn't be objective.

Also, it's peer-review published in a respected journal. Why on Earth would you have claimed the study is BS in the first place? It is very rare for a BS study to get published in such a journal...

I thought the article itself was very interesting, PM me if you want to read it in full.

I'm talking about the article he posted explaining that study suggested religion leads to sustained happiness, I was not able to read the actual study, so the only thing I had to go on was the article he posted. The abstract really doesn't tell me much, because my beef was based on the article suggesting that religion leads to sustained happiness. I believe you that study does not suggest that religion leads to sustained happiness, but the article's analysis of the study is that it does and that was my whole beef.