In every country people think others are less happy than they themselves say (2017)
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#2It looks like the data needs to be normalized? People might be assuming different thresholds of happiness, the same way the common response to "are you ok?" is yes, and continues to be yes until someone is absolutely miserable.
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#3It looks like the data needs to be normalized? People might be assuming different thresholds of happiness, the same way the common response to "are you ok?" is yes, and continues to be yes until someone is absolutely miserable.
This is discussed ad nauseam whenever new happiness indices are published.
I agree with you, and guess most people would. These surveys likely have linguistic and cultural nuances that I imagine are extremely hard to normalize for.
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#4I wonder what's more predictive of socioeconomic trends (recessions, life expectancy, etc.): what you think others would say at any given time versus what you say.
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#5Not reading reports about how happy or miserable people are helps with being happier, I find.
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#6Me: "Given you messed up everything is, I'm still alive and not gone insane. This makes me happy."
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#7Could someone help me understand this plot?
What i guessed: 1. Participants were asked how happy they are. 2. After that they were asked about what percentage of people from /their own country/ would answer happy or very happy. 3. Plot XY of the ratio of people who answered happy or very happy (x axis) vs their average of the percentage of how this happy people estimate how many people answered like them (y axis).
Did I got it right?
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#8It looks like the data needs to be normalized? People might be assuming different thresholds of happiness, the same way the common response to "are you ok?" is yes, and continues to be yes until someone is absolutely miserable.
Same thing goes for customer support satisfaction ratings - in some countries people will rate every interaction 5/5 unless something went horrendously wrong, in others something would have to be unusually good to get more than a 3-4 out of 5.
Don't measure people across regions via these sort of metrics.
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#9Not reading reports about how happy or miserable people are helps with being happier, I find.
so I guess you just jumped to the comment section without reading the report ?
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