Jezebel, Cassandra, and the happiness gap 

 On a lighter note this Friday afternoon, there has been an interesting and largely good-natured debate on various blogs in response to a recent New York Times article on the happiness gap (or the change in the happiness gap, or reversal, or something) between men and women ( He's happier, she's less so ).  Much of the discussion has been on the substantive significance of the results and how those results are likely to be interpreted by the (non-statistically minded) public.  This  post  at  Language Log  summarizes the debate and provides links to previous entries on both sides.  Most of these are quite serious, while a few are (ahem) less so.  On the other hand, any time that Stata code appears on a pop culture website, it is worth noting...