Thanks for the response. On second thought, my objection might be different than what I initially suggested. I do think the test of overlap of scales as you mentioned would be an interesting test to run, but it doesn’t seem to be capturing the overlap I ultimately care about.
Maybe this comment can captures my complaint better. We don’t have any access to what “the most/least satisfied that any human could possibly be”. We don’t even have access to “the most/least satisfied you personally think you could become”.
As a personal example, I would take most of my worst post-therapy days over most of my best pre-therapy days. Younger me has no access to realizing how much satisfied I could be with life, or even how broadly people are in general.
I might be using the language wrong, but I think I’m hinting at differences in the latent scale of well-being or satisfaction… which doesn’t feel like it’s knowable.
Hi Caspar,
Thanks for the response. On second thought, my objection might be different than what I initially suggested. I do think the test of overlap of scales as you mentioned would be an interesting test to run, but it doesn’t seem to be capturing the overlap I ultimately care about.
Maybe this comment can captures my complaint better. We don’t have any access to what “the most/least satisfied that any human could possibly be”. We don’t even have access to “the most/least satisfied you personally think you could become”.
As a personal example, I would take most of my worst post-therapy days over most of my best pre-therapy days. Younger me has no access to realizing how much satisfied I could be with life, or even how broadly people are in general.
I might be using the language wrong, but I think I’m hinting at differences in the latent scale of well-being or satisfaction… which doesn’t feel like it’s knowable.