Wednesday, July 23, 2008

The Exposition

Well like a good literature student(which I'm not), i thought I'll give my 5 cents worth on this song in my previous post. I guess this song explores the circularity of life, and the importance of differences. To have the good without the bad and the smiles without the sad. It just would hold no meaning. I know this might go into a full blown debate on whether the positives are based on a benchmark of negativeness, and failing this a positive spectrum would hold no meaning whatsoever. So I guess, undergoing trials in one's finite life, is a natural progression to an eternity of satisfaction. Haha. Warped logic there. But seriously folks, reflect back to the days when you had not a worry in the world and everything was just fine and dandy and compare it with the intermittent happiness you gain now. Isn't the moments now more meaningful?

As an Economics student, lets put this relationship into equation.

In the Equation,

y = (x2)(b1)(x1) + u

The correlation factor (b1) between y (the cardinal gauge of happiness after calamity) and x1 ( arbitrary trials and tribulation gauge) would be positive. x2 would be a dummy variable which would indicate a -1 when the person in testing is a female and a 1 if it was a male. Tests have shown that when women are unhappy, they tend to have lingering unhappiness, moodiness and.... (based on a small sample size of my mum and sisters) Whereas when guys get unhappy, a few jokes and a couple of smacks on the back would be enough to bring them back to the path of happiness. (based on a large sample size of boys in my 10 years at an all boys school). u represents the error term.

So there you have it. Although sadness would eventually bring about great joy. This might not apply to all people. (: Applied Econometrics applied into daily life.

(This theory a just a contrived attempt to justify my passion in Economics and to fill up my new blog. SO please don't blame me. This theory was done with a very biased sample size to begin with, so they are definitely not your best linear unbiased estimators (BLUE).

ok. thats enough philosophy and economics for now. toodles.

Posted by Veltan at 5:33 AM