department of optimism statistics

With a day and a half to go, I count 26 good events and 15 bad events in May, with the good ones better than the bad ones are bad. I’ve said this before– we just tend to fixate on the bad ones a lot more. The nearly 2:1 ratio has been pretty typical since I started keeping track about 9 years ago.

I think there was only one month with more bad stuff, as well as another month where 11 trivial good things were crushed by 4 horrific bad ones. And that’s the extent of the badness, in the span of nearly a decade.