Media bias towards negative reporting, people are just reporting the media image of happiness in their country vs their own level.
In every country people think others are less happy than they themselves say (2017)
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#22What’s wrong with Honk Hong and South Korea ? 90% says they’re very or rather happy and thinks only 20% of their peer does. I wonder if that’s linked to a cultural thing. Any Asian expert have an idea here ?
Much negative bias in press and a culture of suffering?
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#23I expect the same sentiment holds despite the geography.
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#24Not surprising when media hyperfocuses on doom, crime, death and conflict. Society clearly sounds like a terrible place when viewed through that extreme lens, so people’s everyday worries would be mild in comparison to what everybody else seems to be going through.
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#25Could 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). Di…
Yup, and it shows that most people are happy but still think that most other people are unhappy
Or it shows most people answering surveys claim to be happier than they really are.
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#26Not reading reports about how happy or miserable people are helps with being happier, I find.
Same here. I don't read news. I'm much happier. I believe in the old boomer saying: If something really important happens your neighbor is going to tell you about it.
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#28What’s wrong with Honk Hong and South Korea ? 90% says they’re very or rather happy and thinks only 20% of their peer does. I wonder if that’s linked to a cultural thing. Any Asian expert have an idea here ?
Knowing someone who grew up in HK, they're the most impossibly optimistic person I know. Maybe there's something in the food :P
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#29This chart beggars belief. Could we have a link to the actual studies, and not an anonymous image, please??
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#30is it definitional if you include in the definition of "happy" that you feel you are well off compared to others in your society? ie: if happiness is relative then you can't be happy unless you think others are less happy. Perhaps the trick of modern society is to convince most people, as individuals, that they are better off than average - even when logically that can't be true (putting aside differences b/w means a…
> ie: if happiness is relative then you can't be happy unless you think others are less happy
I don't _think_ most people think along those lines. I'd certainly hope not.