The relationship between money and happiness

Re:The relationship between money and happiness by kweinber on Saturday April 07, 2018 @08:20AM (#16780414)

This was a great example of design hindering interpretation. The graph’s diagonal/diamond shape made legibility much harder. A traditionally oriented graph would have been trivial to read and correlation more obvious.

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Re:The relationship between money and happiness by crusso on Saturday April 07, 2018 @09:08AM (#16780548)

I think they were trying to show something meaningful with the orientation by having their "Trend Line" be the one horizontal metric.

I didn't really understand how they came up with that as a trend line.

I agree that they made an obvious decision to give design preference over legibility. My first glance at the page was "this is neat", but as I tried to wrap my brain around the data, my thoughts changed to "what an unnecessary mess".

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Re:The relationship between money and happiness by redblacktree on Monday April 09, 2018 @08:03PM (#16798013)

I was physically turning my head 45 degrees to the right to figure out what was going on in the graph.

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Re:The relationship between money and happiness by christudor on Saturday April 07, 2018 @08:23AM (#16780424)

Completely agree. This graph is impossible to read.

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Re:The relationship between money and happiness by Jetroid on Saturday April 07, 2018 @08:51AM (#16780505)

You're right, this chart [1] from their blog post about it [2] is far easier to read. I don't like the design as given.

[1] http://2oqz471sa19h3vbwa53m33yj.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-c...

[2] http://www.visualcapitalist.com/relationship-money-happiness...

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Re:The relationship between money and happiness by limaoscarjuliet on Saturday April 07, 2018 @09:53AM (#16780698)

I think it was an attempt to prove the point that money != happiness. But, ironically, the trend line shows the opposite: for majority of countries $ and happiness are correlated, hence the trend line.

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Re:The relationship between money and happiness by markoman on Saturday April 07, 2018 @01:40PM (#16781729)

Agree. But even the data is questionable. How can Singapore & Luxembourg be richer than Norway? Did they include all the Norwegian oil profits?

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Re:The relationship between money and happiness by IAmGraydon on Saturday April 07, 2018 @08:25AM (#16780433)

Yeah - this is nothing short of terrible.

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