Officials of Somerville Mass. wanted to see how happy the people who lived there were, so they asked the residents to fill out a census form which they were asked to rate their happiness with. On a scale of 1-10. Officials wanted to see what made their residents happy and do more of it.

In some cases many residents rated themselves a 7 on a scale of 1-10, their reason being because of things that can not be controlled. For example one resident rated himself a 6 because he wants to grow more.Many residents were happy that the officials were curious as to how they felt and that they were taking advantage of the new age of technology that is available to us.

Officials hope to be able to compare their results to other towns in the future. What they found was that if they change the surroundings and help out those less fortunate than people will be happier. In other places such as France there has been a riot of unhappy people in the streets which is exactly what the officials of Somerville Mass. want to avoid.

Revision for Thursday 9/12/13

In John Tierney’s article “How Happy Are You? A Census Wants to Know” it discussed how Officials of Somerville Mass. wanted residents to fill out a census which rated their happiness on a scale of 1-10. The idea was to find out what made people happy and do more of it. Many people had different opinions on it. Some of the residents were flattered that their feelings were being taken into consideration. The Officials hope to down the line be able to use their results to help better the community by using gentrification. Over all this experiment was useful to them because they were able to find out how people were feeling.

Reflection:

Before I had made any changes to my summary it was very long and it had a lot of detail that didn’t need to be there. Now my summary is very straight to the point yet it still touches base with things that are discussed in the article.