Hi Zachary, yeah, see the other comment I just wrote. I think stretching could plausibly magnify or attenuate the relationship, whilst shifting likely wouldn’t.
While I agree in principle, I think the evidence is that the happiness scale doesn’t compress at one end. There’s a bunch of evidence that people use happiness scales linearly. I refer to Michael Plant’s report (pp20-22 ish): https://wellbeing.hmc.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/2401-WP-A-Happy-Probability-DOI.pdf
Hi Zachary, yeah, see the other comment I just wrote. I think stretching could plausibly magnify or attenuate the relationship, whilst shifting likely wouldn’t.
While I agree in principle, I think the evidence is that the happiness scale doesn’t compress at one end. There’s a bunch of evidence that people use happiness scales linearly. I refer to Michael Plant’s report (pp20-22 ish): https://wellbeing.hmc.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/2401-WP-A-Happy-Probability-DOI.pdf