BAYLOR UNIVERSITY STUDY: Bigger government makes for more satisfied people. This is for me one of those "shall I believe you or my lying eyes" posts. I've been on Planet Earth for pushing 70 years now, and the study results simply don't correlate with that 69+ years of experience.

Further, there is nothing in the summary that suggests to me that there is any causal relationship between subjective 'happiness' and the 4 metrics used.

The 'study' is bogus.