Countries with more butter have happier citizens

REALLY??

a post by Frank Jacobs for the Big Think blog

Butter supply and life satisfaction are linked — but by causation or correlation?

• Haiti and other countries with low butter supply report low life satisfaction.
• The reverse is true for countries such as Germany, which score high in both categories.
• As the graph below shows, a curious pattern emerges across the globe. But is it causation or correlation?

"Give me a good sharp knife and a good sharp cheese, and I'm a happy man". Perhaps not a quote you'd expect from the creative mind behind Game of Thrones, but maybe George R.R. Martin is onto something.

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