We just read this story from New York Times and thought it’s interesting and love to share with you all. Mr. Alvin Wong (a Chinese American) is considered the happiest man in America.
Gallup.com is a service that provides data-driven news based on U.S. and world polls, daily tracking and public opinion research. For the last three years, Gallup has called 1,000 randomly selected American adults each day and asked them about their emotional status, work satisfaction, eating habits, illnesses, stress levels and other indicators of their quality of life.
The New York Times asked Gallup to come up with a statistical composite for the happiest person in America, based on the characteristics that most closely correlated with happiness in 2010. Men, for example, tend to be happier than women, older people are happier than middle-aged people, and so on.
Gallup’s answer: he’s a tall, Asian-American, observant Jew who is at least 65 and married, has children, lives in Hawaii, runs his own business and has a household income of more than $120,000 a year.
Meet Alvin Wong. He is a 5-foot-10, 69-year-old, Chinese-American, Kosher-observing Jew, who’s married with children and lives in Honolulu. He runs his own health care management business and earns more than $120,000 a year.
Interestingly, Mr. Wong said that he was indeed a very happy person.
What do you think?
For complete article, visit NYTimes