You Can’t Make This Up

Clark W. fought depression after the movie was done

Aren’t there mysteries that researchers can be figuring out? Must they always bring to the light the already illuminated? At what point does something become part of the communal common knowledge? I thought this story was there since the dawn of leisure time.

Nawijn and his team followed 1,530 Dutch adults (974 of whom took a vacation during the 32-week study period), measuring their happiness levels before, during and after their vacations. The results: People got the biggest boost from the time before their vacation — an eight-week positive mood increase — which quickly dissipated after the vacation ended.

Weird. Who would have thought the the anticipation of a trip and the trip itself was much more enjoyable than the fact that the trip was over and that you have to go back to piles of papers at work? I should have conducted a competency study of Nawjim and his team to see how smart they thought they were before, during and after their study. I’m sure they would have been surprised at their general retardation after the conclusion of the resaerch.