I’m working with Paul Dolan on a report related to this topic, and the need to value states worse than dead (SWD) is our only major point of disagreement. He gives some kind of justification for his views on p26 of this report, but I find it extremely unconvincing.
But to be fair, nobody has proposed a particularly good method for dealing with SWD. Most attempts have used versions of the time trade-off, with limited success – for a slightly outdated review, see Tilling et al., 2012.
In this Facebook post I’ve listed a few options for achieving the related but more modest objective of determining the point in happiness scales that is equivalent to death.
I’m working with Paul Dolan on a report related to this topic, and the need to value states worse than dead (SWD) is our only major point of disagreement. He gives some kind of justification for his views on p26 of this report, but I find it extremely unconvincing.
But to be fair, nobody has proposed a particularly good method for dealing with SWD. Most attempts have used versions of the time trade-off, with limited success – for a slightly outdated review, see Tilling et al., 2012.
In this Facebook post I’ve listed a few options for achieving the related but more modest objective of determining the point in happiness scales that is equivalent to death.