Perhaps the sceptic thinks, for some reason, we should give up on happiness data altogether—they don’t buy the construct validation story. But, why stop here? We ask people for subjective ratings all the time: Uber drivers, restaurants, job satisfaction, mental health diagnoses, pain scores, etc. Are these all nonsense too? Surely not.
But Uber is not claiming that a movement from a 4 to a 5 is equally valuable as a movement from a 3 to a 4, are they?
But Uber is not claiming that a movement from a 4 to a 5 is equally valuable as a movement from a 3 to a 4, are they?