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Re:Why America's economy is soaring ahead of its rivals by WalterBright on Wednesday December 04, 2024 @02:04PM (#42320792)
It's impossible to measure happiness.
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Re:Why America's economy is soaring ahead of its rivals by CatWChainsaw on Wednesday December 04, 2024 @03:45PM (#42321857)
What if you conduct a survey that asks you to rate your happiness level from 0 to 10.
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Re:Why America's economy is soaring ahead of its rivals by WalterBright on Wednesday December 04, 2024 @05:37PM (#42322840)
How would you know that your 6 is equivalent to the other guy's 8? Nobody knows. It's impossible.

There are also cultural differences to what "happiness" even means.

Any study about happiness is likely to be bogus.

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Re:Why America's economy is soaring ahead of its rivals by CatWChainsaw on Thursday December 05, 2024 @09:10PM (#42335452)
Then it seems any study about any emotion or subjective interpretation is also bogus.
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Re:Why America's economy is soaring ahead of its rivals by jimmySixDOF on Monday December 09, 2024 @05:09AM (#42364656)
There is actually an annual UN World Happiness Report and there have been various pushes to OKR/KPI Gross National Happiness (see Bhutan for example).

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gdp-vs-happiness

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