Re:Koreans react to startling results in Pew "what makes lif...
by armchairhacker on Wednesday November 24, 2021 @04:36PM
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Current statistics seem to suggest that around 82% of people in the US are satisfied with their lives [0].
I wouldn't be surprised if these numbers are inflated, but it's way more than 2%.
Actually US mean satisfaction is higher than most places in Europe [2]. I don't doubt that social isolation and culture are a problem, but it's nothing compared to extreme poverty and not being safe.
[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/happiness-cantril-ladder [2] https://thehill.com/homenews/news/537118-americans-personal-...
Re:Koreans react to startling results in Pew "what makes lif...
by Imnimo on Wednesday November 24, 2021 @06:02PM
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And yet look at how many comments in this thread are breathlessly accepting the idea that only 2% of Americans are satisfied with life, and drawing a variety of philosophical and political conclusions from that absurd statistic.
Re:Koreans react to startling results in Pew "what makes lif...
by jkhdigital on Wednesday November 24, 2021 @07:35PM
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Imagine how many man-hours were expended in composing those comments
This isn't actually what the original study says, it was quoted in a confusing way by this article. 2% is the number of Americans who "refrain from offering detailed responses, responding instead that they are satisfied with life, that they feel fulfilled, or something else broadly general but still positive." [0]
So 17% of Germans find life fulfilling but don't particularly feel inclined to share their reasoning.
The percentage of Americans who find meaning from some source is clearly much higher, although I'm having a hard time finding that number.
[0] https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2021/11/18/general-rather...