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Is the implication that watching TV causes you to be or more or less unhappy? I do not see any indication that one behavior describes is predictive of the mental state of the test subject. Too much data is omitted to reach any definitive conclusions. Let us see the raw data not the data that has been manipulated "after taking into account their education, income, age and marital status – as well as other demographic predictors of both viewing and happiness."
The conclusions clearly support their method of analyzing the data. A perfect case of making the data fit the premise of the study.