OK so here are the results of yesterday’s poll (thanks to Google Spreadsheets). The first number is the average (out of 5 where 5 is ‘Really Happy’ and 3 is ‘Neutral’) while the number in the brackets is the standard deviation.
4.35 (0.90) 3.3 (0.82) 3.47 (1.1)
2.88 (0.79) 3.26 (1.06) 3.84 (0.81)
I am guessing Andrew Leigh’s picture was taken pre-baby.
A new paper today about how happy economists seem. [HT: Marginal Revolution] To what end, I am not sure.
In honor of this I thought I’d conduct a survey of how happy some Australian economist bloggers appear. The survey is over the fold. (It could be laid out better but I didn’t want to spend more than 10 minutes on this). Results will follow later.
First, here are the pictures ….
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If you look a little to the right you might see something new: ads. Now that the blog is off the university system, it has costs that I would like to cover. They are not substantial, but still. Anyhow, I am trying out these Google ads out to see what they bring. Half of this site’s visitors come through searches and those are my ad targets. For regular readers, I recommend a feed reader or the email subscription service, neither of which will contain ads.
Well, today, this blog was migrated (successfully it appears) to a new host outside of the Australian University system. Should relieve some traffic issues and downtime problems that we have been facing of late. The new host is BlueHost and I must say their technical support have been great (email responses within the hour). Feel free to let me know, however, if there are any teething issues.
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