Mister Rogers had a point – routinely greeting six neighbors maximizes wellbeing
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Re: Mister Rogers had a point – routinely greeting six neighbors maximizes wellbeing
#2Where does anyone live that they even see their neighbors to greet? Not here in the suburbs.
Re: Mister Rogers had a point – routinely greeting six neighbors maximizes wellbeing
#3Original Study (with pretty charts!): https://news.gallup.com/poll/509543/saying-hello-linked-high...
Interesting, "No meaningful increase in wellbeing is seen for additional neighbors greeted beyond six."
Re: Mister Rogers had a point – routinely greeting six neighbors maximizes wellbeing
#4> As part of the Gallup National Health and Well-Being Index, saying hello to more than 1 neighbor was shown to correlate with greater self-perception of well-being.
So this wasn't a study. As far as I can tell, the results can just as easily be summarized as "people who report higher well-being are more likely to greet neighbours."
This is probably just the article to blame, the quotes they pick use words like "correlation."
I find the five vs. six distinction rather interesting though. What's up with that?
> Averaged across five dimensions that included career, communal, physical, financial, and social well-being, the increase which greeting a neighbor had led to around a 2-point increase on a scale of 0-100 up until the sixth neighbor, at which point further greetings had no measured impact.
Re: Mister Rogers had a point – routinely greeting six neighbors maximizes wellbeing
#5Where does anyone live that they even see their neighbors to greet? Not here in the suburbs.
Guess it depends on your suburb.
In my area there are people who sit in they are retirees that sit in their front yards and greet not just pedestrians but every vehicle that goes by.
Re: Mister Rogers had a point – routinely greeting six neighbors maximizes wellbeing
#6> As part of the Gallup National Health and Well-Being Index, saying hello to more than 1 neighbor was shown to correlate with greater self-perception of well-being. So this wasn't a study. As far as I can tell, the results can just as easily be summarized as "people who report higher well-being are more likely to greet neighbours." This is probably just the article to blame, the quotes they pick use words like "corr…
All finite sets of finite numbers have an average.
The value of the average is the result of the biases in data collection.
There is obviously a cap in the number of people you can practically greet in a day.
Re: Mister Rogers had a point – routinely greeting six neighbors maximizes wellbeing
#7Where does anyone live that they even see their neighbors to greet? Not here in the suburbs.
I mean isn't a suburb one of those HOA neighborhoods with houses every 1/4 acre? Seems ripe for neighbor communication.
This seems like a cop out.
Re: Mister Rogers had a point – routinely greeting six neighbors maximizes wellbeing
#8I yelled at one yesterday for looking at their phone while driving, does that count?!
Re: Mister Rogers had a point – routinely greeting six neighbors maximizes wellbeing
#9Where does anyone live that they even see their neighbors to greet? Not here in the suburbs.
If you walk outside you'll see people.
Re: Mister Rogers had a point – routinely greeting six neighbors maximizes wellbeing
#10Where does anyone live that they even see their neighbors to greet? Not here in the suburbs.
Is there never anybody else outside when you go for a walk?