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Denmark named best place in world to live…
2017-06-22

[YourNuz.com] Denmark has been declared the best place in the world to live while the Central African Republic is the worst, according to a new study.

Australia ranks ninth out of a total of 128 countries, the United Kingdom comes in 12th while the United States is 18th.

The results were revealed in the 2017 Social Progress Index which measures 50 indicators of what life is like for people living in different nations around the world.
I wonder how they conducted their poll?
Usually such things are done by asking X number of a reasonably matched set of people from each country the same questions and noting how they rate their experience for each on a scale from one to five, where one is awful and five is wonderful or vice versa. But they don't ask what they mean by their answers, and so the stoic Danes say everything is wonderful even as they live on antidepressants, as I recall. Americans are critical of imperfections, so we are ranked as considerably unhappier.
In other news:
DENMARK: Muslim immigration means "Danes can no longer sit on their own balcony and eat a ham sandwich"
...but to complain about that would called racist, so they don't complain to the pollster.
Posted by:Seeking cure for ignorance

#6  They can't support the 300k population they have now.
Posted by: Skidmark   2017-06-22 20:11  

#5  ...is Iceland taking any ME refugees?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2017-06-22 18:00  

#4  Iceland was ranked the second best place to live on a list that heavily favoured European countries – making up seven of the top 10

Those indicators are broken down into three categories – basic human needs, foundations of wellbeing and opportunity.

That ought to tell you something. And this -

Some of the most troubled countries in the world – such as Venezuela, Iraq and Syria – were not included in the study because data could not be collected.

Posted by: Bobby   2017-06-22 13:57  

#3  the link is blocked

Both links work for me, 746 dear. But the original Daily Mail article about the study can be found here. Let us know if that also doesn't work.
Posted by: trailing wife   2017-06-22 12:54  

#2  the link is blocked
Posted by: 746   2017-06-22 11:44  

#1  [I]ndex of ‘social progress’... measures basic human needs, foundations of well being, and opportunities.. Basic human needs includes data on access to medication, sanitation, shelter and security; wellbeing takes in information on education, access to communications and environment; while opportunity covers rights, freedoms, tolerance, and access to higher education... Overall the world has made progress since 2014, the report authors noted, saying that access to communications and education have increased rapidly, though noted that personal rights, personal safety, and tolerance had stagnated or decreased..

The joys of one-world governance?
Posted by: Pappy   2017-06-22 08:57  

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