Thailand rated at middle range emotional level in global survey

[Jingthing]

The most emotional nations are mostly in Latin America.

The least emotional nations are mostly in Eastern Europe.

The middle range including Thailand is a big grab bag.

Feel free to criticize the survey to your heart's content. Get emotional about it! Or not.

This is not a "happiness" survey.

Gallup measured daily emotions in 148 countries in 2014 by asking people whether they experienced five positive and five negative emotions a lot the previous day. The five negative experiences include anger, stress, sadness, physical pain and worry. The five positive experiences include feeling well-rested, being treated with respect, enjoyment, smiling and laughing a lot and learning or doing something interesting. The most and least emotional countries are based on the rankings of the average "yes" responses to all questions.

Separately, the questions about positive and negative emotions make up Gallup's Positive Experience and Negative ExperienceIndexes, respectively. Both indexes attempt to quantify how people live their lives -- as opposed to how people see their lives.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/184631/latin-americans-lead-world-emotions.aspx?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_content=morelink&utm_campaign=syndication

[jerojero]

And this useless info can be used in what way? Who pays for such ridiculous surveys?

[NeverSure]

And this useless info can be used in what way? Who pays for such ridiculous surveys?

Nice way to express anger, stress, sadness, physical pain and worry on a single line.

[Jingthing]

It's the CIA I tell you. The bloody CIA!

[lostoday]

Why do you say stuff like Eastern Europe. The least emotional country is not in Eastern Europe unless Bangladesh has moved. Others close to the bottom are Mongolia and Sudan.

Edited September 3, 2015 by lostoday

[NeverSure]

The thread should have been about the emotional level of TVF posters. Then we could rank each one by the same criteria. It would be like shooting fish in a barrel 555.