10 most unhappy states in the U.S.

[garbon]

Here's apparently what they look at for life eval and emotional health.

The Life Evaluation Index, one of six sub-components of the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, includes a self-evaluation of two items (present life situation and anticipated life situation five years from now) using the Cantril Self-Anchoring Striving Scale with steps from 0 to 10, where "0" represents the worst possible life an "10" represents the best possible life. Taken together, respondents are then classified as "thriving," "struggling," or "suffering," with "thriving" respondents evaluating their current state as a "7" or higher and their future state as a "8" or higher, while "suffering" respondents provide a "4" or lower to both evaluations.

The Emotional Health Index, one of six sub-components of the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, includes 10 items: smiling or laughter, learning or doing something interesting, being treated with respect, enjoyment, happiness, worry, sadness, anger, stress, and diagnosis of depression.

[garbon]

Actually here are the rest too.

The Physical Health Index, one of six sub-components of the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, includes 18 items, which measure: sick days in the past month, disease burden, health problems that get in the way of normal activities, obesity, feeling well-rested, daily energy, daily colds, daily flu, and daily headaches.

The Work Environment Index, one of six sub-components of the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, includes four items: job satisfaction, ability to use one's strengths at work, supervisor's treatment (more like a boss or a partner), and is it an open and trusting work environment.

The Healthy Behavior Index, one of six sub-components of the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, includes four items: smoking, eating healthy, weekly consumption of fruits and vegetables, and weekly exercise frequency.

The Basic Access Index, one of six sub-components of the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, includes 13 items: access to clean water, medicine, a safe place to exercise, affordable fruits and vegetables; enough money for food, shelter, healthcare; having health insurance, having a doctor, having visited a dentist recently; satisfaction with the community, the community getting better as a place to live, and feeling safe walking alone at night.

Apart from health behavior index, I think all of those sub-indexes have at least some measures that look at proxies for happiness.

[crazy canuck]

Seems there is more to Kentucky failing to make it to the NCAA tourney and losing in the first round of the NIT than just recruiting philosophy.

[Caliga]

It seems not everybody is as happy about living in Kentucky as Cal  is 

I am kind of surprised the sunny warm states are generally unhappier than the cold dark states.

I've said this over and over again, but I guess I need to say it yet one more time: a huge swath of Kentucky is in the worst part of Appalachia, which sadly has a lot in common with the Third World.  I do not live in that part of the state however.

[Ed Anger]

Don't bother Cal.

[Eddie Teach]

That selection of states seems to be based on income more than anything else.

[garbon]

That selection of states seems to be based on income more than anything else.

Probably not surprising if that correlates with various factors in what those sub-indexes look for.

[fhdz]

That selection of states seems to be based on income more than anything else.

Maslow's hierarchy of needs provides a correlation there.

[mongers]

Null vote, Bhutan.   

[Valmy]

I've said this over and over again, but I guess I need to say it yet one more time: a huge swath of Kentucky is in the worst part of Appalachia, which sadly has a lot in common with the Third World.  I do not live in that part of the state however.

Oh for Godsake Cal I was just busting your chops.

[Caliga]

Yeah, I figured, but there are a lot of ignorant people around here who don't know any better.... kind of how like if I pointed to some broke-ass Indian fishing village in the middle of nowhere B.C. and speculated everyone in the province must live that way, even the dudes in Vancouver.

[garbon]

Yeah, I figured, but there are a lot of ignorant people around here who don't know any better.... kind of how like if I pointed to some broke-ass Indian fishing village in the middle of nowhere B.C. and speculated everyone in the province must live that way, even the dudes in Vancouver.

More likely it is people meh it is Kentuck. No point wasting brain cells on what are the "good" parts and the "bad" parts.

[Caliga]

For someone that lives here, I would argue that there is indeed a point.

[Admiral Yi]

I like Kentucky. 

[Caliga]

I like Kentucky. 

I am curious if all the people around here who enjoy shitting on Kentucky have ever been here.