I’m currently working on a paper which suggests ‘scale norming’ could lead to quite a large bias/underestimate of average national life satisfaction. Hope to post a version of this on the Forum soon.
Thanks to your post, I see HLI’s 2023 pilot study (“Can we trust wellbeing surveys?”) explores methods to correct for interpersonal scale-use differences. Although it doesn’t appear these methods have been incorporated into HLI’s cost-effectiveness models, maybe we’ll see how much scale norming might alter cost-effectiveness results like WELLBYs-per-dollar in time.
This should have way more attention than it’s currently receiving
I’m currently working on a paper which suggests ‘scale norming’ could lead to quite a large bias/underestimate of average national life satisfaction. Hope to post a version of this on the Forum soon.
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/wSySeNZ6C7hfDfBSx/rescaling-and-the-easterlin-paradox-2-0
Thanks to your post, I see HLI’s 2023 pilot study (“Can we trust wellbeing surveys?”) explores methods to correct for interpersonal scale-use differences. Although it doesn’t appear these methods have been incorporated into HLI’s cost-effectiveness models, maybe we’ll see how much scale norming might alter cost-effectiveness results like WELLBYs-per-dollar in time.