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Re:Norway's wealth fund now worth $319,900 per citizen by imacomputertoo on Saturday February 01, 2025 @04:12AM (#42897048)
How can these happiness scores be meaningful? It's all just surveys, and self reporting. It's subjective and sensitive to cultural differences.
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Re:Norway's wealth fund now worth $319,900 per citizen by chikere232 on Saturday February 01, 2025 @04:22AM (#42897098)
Do you think people are lying about their happiness or that happiness isn't subjective?
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Re:Norway's wealth fund now worth $319,900 per citizen by ANewFormation on Saturday February 01, 2025 @04:24AM (#42897106)
Happiness being subjective to cultural differences is a feature, not a bug.

If a culture is breeding widespread unhappiness (perhaps in exchange for maximization of economic growth over all) then it's something that should be observed.

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Re:Norway's wealth fund now worth $319,900 per citizen by jampekka on Saturday February 01, 2025 @05:10AM (#42897320)
Self-reported happiness (or life satisfaction) is only a part of the ranking. The objective measures correlate strongly with the subjective ones (with some outliers like Israel). But as any metric, it's of course not perfect.

"Happiness is measured using six categories including GDP per capita, social support, and healthy life expectancy, among others."

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