David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

Hondurans are doing. Graham states,
“Because average country income levels
do not matter to happiness, but relative
distances from the average do, the poor
Honduran is happier because their
distance from mean income is smaller.”
And in Honduras, the poor are much
closer in wealth to the middle class than
the poor are in Chile, so they feel better
off.
3 These statistics are derived from a
paper entitled “The Role of Ethnicity in
Choosing and Leaving Science in Highly
Selective Institutions” by the
sociologists Rogers Elliott and A.
Christopher Strenta et al. The SAT
scores are from the early 1990s, and