File talk:World happiness.png

erroneous colours code
The pink coulour (e.g. Mexico, Brazil), which is different from lilac (e.g. Italy) is not in the list below. As some peoply might confuse both colours it should be replaced by a different colour. Even better would be a pattern discernible for colour blind users. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.178.166.1 (talk) 15:52, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

The colors on the map appear not to correspond to the numbers or the map in the cited article. For example, the cited article assigns the same number (247) to the USA and New Zealand, but these countries have different colors on the map here. Kirtag Hratiba (talk) 04:57, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

I think you should take the number of countries that there are (178) and divide it by how many colours you're going to use (5), so that you can have 5 equal groups of 35.6 or 3 groups of 36 and 2 groups of 35. Please make time for this. Bsrboy 00:35, 10 March 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bsrboy (talk • contribs)

I kissed a monkey that was a different shade to the other countries and the galapocus islands (part of ecuadro) are grey.South africa and especialy zimbabwe should be unhappy (red) because inflation at 100,000% and half the population is malnurished and the people should be even more unhappy because it was once prosperous. i also believe that libya - as africa's richest country should be in purple as theres been an economic miracle there! there are also many russian islands which havnt been included by russia and norway has a few which havnt been added. also many indian islands and socotra havnt been added to india and yemen respectivly.

Flawed data
I don't think the person that did this study actually met the Canadians to see how depressed they look. I don't care how they answered the subjective questions, Canada is not one of the happiest nations in the world. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.216.159.130 (talk) 03:09, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Denmark
Denmark is gray; Denmark is the happiest country on Earth. Daniel Christensen (talk) 22:56, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

Existing maps do not match this one
This map is a new creation -- synthesis and original research. There are maps in existence from the study authors, and this map does not match it. I think the differences are important because they may be related to statistical confidence bands or something like that. --Blue Tie (talk) 22:11, 29 March 2009 (UTC)