Conservatives outperform liberals in self-reported happiness and mental health when controlling for demographics.

pixelready a day ago | parent | next [-]

“Outperform” is a strange way of putting this. When did happiness and mental health become a contest?

Happiness and health are objective goods, in this case quantified.

The question posed to you was "When did it become a contest?"

	▲	bitlax an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Are you looking for a date?

abraxas a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's probably directly linked to their higher level of religiosity.

	▲	bitlax 14 hours ago \| parent [-]
		This is observed among atheists.

Braxton1980 a day ago | parent | prev [-]

What demographics and what does it mean to control them for statistics?

	▲	bitlax 13 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> What demographics All of the ones you'd see most commonly: age, sex, race, religion, level of education, marital status, etc. > control https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlling_for_a_variable