Re:'It's quite soul-destroying': how we fell out of love wit...
by krona on Sunday October 29, 2023 @03:17PM
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This is quite easy to test in a longitudinal cross-cultural study of people over time. You'd probably find half a book shelf of research already which does exactly that, if only one bothered to look for it.
Re:'It's quite soul-destroying': how we fell out of love wit...
by sarchertech on Sunday October 29, 2023 @04:47PM
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Happy to take a look through anything you might want to point me to.
1) Society has changed in a way that has made people less happy. 2) Society has changed in a way that has made people less likely to lie about being happy.
If you stop to think it through for a second, you’ll quickly understand how the statement “we have some data from somewhere in the middle of the time period in question that self reported satisfaction and a actual satisfaction are correlated” isn’t evidence to support either side. That statement can easily fit either hypothesis.