1.5 Million People Were Told that Extreme Conservatives Are Happier than Political Moderates. Approximately .0001 Million Americans Learned that the Opposite Is True.
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From David Brooks’s op-ed in NYT:
People at the extremes are happier than political moderates. . . . none, it seems, are happier than the Tea Partiers . . .
Sociologist Jay Livingston, giving data from the 2009-2010 General Social Survey, which is the usual place people turn to for population data on happiness of Americans:
The GSS does not offer “bitter” or “Tea Party” as choices, but extreme conservatives are nearly three times as likely as others to be “not too happy.”
