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Wednesday, not Monday is worst day of the week
Bangalore: Wednesday has turned out to be the most miserable day of the week, according to the research done by two American mathematicians Christopher Danforth and Peter Dodds of Vermont University.
In an attempt to bring the accurate result, Professor Danforth and Dodds analyzed words used in 2.4 million internet blogs such as Twitter, giving a score out of nine depending on how positive they were. They gave words like free, fun, rainbow and sex eight plus score, while words such as betray, cruel, hatred and suffocate were awarded less than two.
These two mathematicians claimed that Monday was always assumed to be the most miserable day, but as it turned out, Wednesday is the worst day of the week. Saturday and Sunday rated predictably well but, most shockingly, Monday came out as the second happiest day of the week, partly because people were still reminiscing about the weekend. However by Wednesday, these feelings subsided.
Professor Danforth said, "People`s daily experience is being reflected somewhat in what they are saying, and this is more of a story, we think, for Twitter messages, which we`ve just started to pay attention to, about a year ago. People think that they are communicating with friends, but since blogs are public, we are just looking over their shoulders."
Internet enabled these two mathematicians to rate happiness based on higher number of people than previous manual studies. "We attempted to measure collective happiness on a much larger scale, similar to measuring the temperature outside. The energy of a few molecules bouncing around doesn`t give a good indication of heat, you need billion or more," said Professor Danforth.
Source:
http://www.siliconindia.com/shownews/Wednesday_not_Monday_is_the_worst_day_of_th
In an attempt to bring the accurate result, Professor Danforth and Dodds analyzed words used in 2.4 million internet blogs such as Twitter, giving a score out of nine depending on how positive they were. They gave words like free, fun, rainbow and sex eight plus score, while words such as betray, cruel, hatred and suffocate were awarded less than two.
These two mathematicians claimed that Monday was always assumed to be the most miserable day, but as it turned out, Wednesday is the worst day of the week. Saturday and Sunday rated predictably well but, most shockingly, Monday came out as the second happiest day of the week, partly because people were still reminiscing about the weekend. However by Wednesday, these feelings subsided.
Professor Danforth said, "People`s daily experience is being reflected somewhat in what they are saying, and this is more of a story, we think, for Twitter messages, which we`ve just started to pay attention to, about a year ago. People think that they are communicating with friends, but since blogs are public, we are just looking over their shoulders."
Internet enabled these two mathematicians to rate happiness based on higher number of people than previous manual studies. "We attempted to measure collective happiness on a much larger scale, similar to measuring the temperature outside. The energy of a few molecules bouncing around doesn`t give a good indication of heat, you need billion or more," said Professor Danforth.
Source:
http://www.siliconindia.com/shownews/Wednesday_not_Monday_is_the_worst_day_of_th
