Can football make you happy? 足球能使你快乐吗？_BBC

Can football make you happy? 足球能使你快乐吗？

本集内容 Can football make you happy? 足球能使你快乐吗？

学习要点有关“statistics 统计数据”的词汇

边看边答 Compared to when their team wins, how much sadder is the average football fan when their team loses?

So, does football make us happy or sad?

足球会给我们带来快乐还是悲伤？

Professor Peter Dalton, who by the way supports Newcastle, has been studying football and happiness. Using an app called Mappiness, his team asked fans to rate how they were feeling out of a hundred before and after a game. They analysed two million responses from 32,000 people.

彼得·道尔顿教授是英超纽卡斯尔联的球迷，他一直在研究足球和幸福感之间的联系。通过一款名为“Mappiness”的应用，他的团队让足球迷对他们在球赛前后的感受打分。他们分析了来自32,000人的200万份回复。

Professor Peter Dalton, University of Sussex

This is probably the most comprehensive dataset ever collected on happiness. You're twice as unhappy when your team loses as you are happy when your team wins. On average, it makes us sad and on the face of it, it's (a) pretty irrational thing to do - to be a football fan. It doesn't make sense, you'd be better off doing something else.