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Re:New High of 90% of Americans Satisfied with Personal Life by datashow on Friday February 07, 2020 @02:42PM (#22269997)
> "Satisfaction with personal life" will have very different implications for different people to the point of being useless.

Of course "satisfaction with personal life", like many things in survey, can have very different implications for different people. But it does not necessarily make it being useless.

You could ask more questions about people specific satisfactions with personal life, it does not make the general sense of satisfaction with personal life useless.

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Re:New High of 90% of Americans Satisfied with Personal Life by happytoexplain on Friday February 07, 2020 @02:47PM (#22270057)
I'm not saying the problem is that people are made satisfied by different things. I'm saying that I don't believe the concept of "general satisfaction with personal life" is a useful or meaningful concept because of the English language - because of the different interpretations of what it means. For a counter-example, I think people have a much more consistent feeling of what it means to be "happy" in general.
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