Your second link helped me refine my line of questioning / confusion. You’re right that social support declined a lot, but the sum of the six key variables (GDP per capita, etc) still mostly trended upwards over time, huge covid dip aside, which is what I’d expect in the India development success story.
It’s the dystopia residual that keeps dropping, from 2.275 − 1.83 = 0.445 in 2015 (i.e. Indians reported 0.445 points higher life satisfaction than you’d predict using the model) to 0.979 − 1.83 = −0.85, an absolute plummeting of life satisfaction across a sizeable fraction of the world population, that’s for some reason not explained by the six key variables. Hm…
(please don’t feel obliged to respond – I appreciate the link!)
Thank you for the pointer!
Your second link helped me refine my line of questioning / confusion. You’re right that social support declined a lot, but the sum of the six key variables (GDP per capita, etc) still mostly trended upwards over time, huge covid dip aside, which is what I’d expect in the India development success story.
It’s the dystopia residual that keeps dropping, from 2.275 − 1.83 = 0.445 in 2015 (i.e. Indians reported 0.445 points higher life satisfaction than you’d predict using the model) to 0.979 − 1.83 = −0.85, an absolute plummeting of life satisfaction across a sizeable fraction of the world population, that’s for some reason not explained by the six key variables. Hm…
(please don’t feel obliged to respond – I appreciate the link!)