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Alone and co-workers. Sad.
Do your co-workers count as friends? Then it's actually pretty good. If not - that's a change you can make without even changing your lifestyle.
These are some of the worst designed charts. I had to download the CSV to figure out that the x-axis is age. Once I figured it out the bottom right chart was chilling.
I figured it out eventually but at first I thought X was percent of people. Also confusing is the "8 hours per day" subscript. Took me a while to figure out it actually is the Y axis labeling (but poorly placed and styled).
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To how many mainstream-culture American weddings have you been invited? It has been more than a few for me, and in general the (printed, hand-signed, often hand-decorated, mailed) invitations are fussed over by the bride and her mother nearly as much as the flowers. All of those brides would have been mortified at the suggestion to just leave it to facebook...
Quite a few, including my own. No one I've ever heard of has actually used Facebook to send invitations. But, in at least two cases over the past four years, Facebook friends lists have been the only source used in constructing an invitation list. Not being on Facebook, I wasn't in those lists. And so... I mean, I get that it's hard to believe what I'm saying can possibly be true. I wouldn't have believed it myself b…
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Quite a few, including my own. No one I've ever heard of has actually used Facebook to send invitations. But, in at least two cases over the past four years, Facebook friends lists have been the only source used in constructing an invitation list. Not being on Facebook, I wasn't in those lists. And so... I mean, I get that it's hard to believe what I'm saying can possibly be true. I wouldn't have believed it myself b…
Only source? Wow! That's tragic for grandma, but I guess some weddings are better off without old folks anyway? b^) Actually, in a couple of years that will be a good way to leave out young people...
Rigtheo, so now we need to compare to other cultures and overlay the results with mental health issues, self-reported happiness, income, GDP, obesity, and all the other interesting metrics. We already know the results though: people who have strong family ties and closer and enduring friendships and sense of community live longer healthier lives than their lonely counterparts and are more productive at work and in th…
On the up side: people who are more separate, isolated, lonely, without being to far in to the pathological extremes, tend to buy more things, which is good for The Economy. I would expect them to buy more functionally useful goods, like televisions, but fewer positional goods, like houses with lawns. Since the price of manufactured goods is constantly being brought down by markets, but positional goods by definition…