# Happy coder == productive coder?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/happy-coder-productive-coder/92549>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [April 20, 2007, 4:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/happy-coder-productive-coder/92549 "2007-04-20T16:38:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dorren](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/848f3c/32.png) [@Dorren](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Dorren)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2007, 4:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/happy-coder-productive-coder/92549/1 "2007-04-20T16:38:21Z")

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just random surfing today, and found this gem.

> **[Psychologist Produces The First-ever 'World Map Of Happiness'](https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/11/061113093726.htm)**
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> Adrian White, analytic social psychologist at the University of Leicester produces first-ever global projection of international differences in subjective well-being -- the 'world map of happiness.'

The study lists the happiest countries. guess which one is top of the  
list? Denmark. Does that implies that a happy environment creates  
productive coders, like DHH?