Self-report, is like popular sentiment unreliable. If you’d use Schopenhauer’s method, you’d measure happiness by lack of privation. Remove a thing, see if the person feels worse.
Using numbers seems to have a limit.
“As remained remarkably flat over the last few decades, even in countries like Germany, the UK, China, and India that have experienced huge GDP growth.”
Sleep deprivation, screen addiction, and increase of sight problems are a likely cause, urban sprawl and so on...
A high GDP’s not the problem...
Are kids ever polled for happiness? If you take only one sample, it’s gonna be bad. If you take a smaple every year, from 3 to 70, it’ll work better.
Easterlin paradox isn’t true.
If you want to measure, in a less skewed way, use MORE indicators, avoid Hoefstader’s law.
It’s also false, that growth did not benefit the average person, since it did. How many had e-readers, wireless headphones, and flat-screens in 2005?
Maybe, just age makes people sad? Maybe
That makes me more pessimistic about finding the relationship between biological indicators and self-reported human welfare.
Weight? Reported hours of sleep? Nearsightedness out of 10?
Self-report, is like popular sentiment unreliable. If you’d use Schopenhauer’s method, you’d measure happiness by lack of privation. Remove a thing, see if the person feels worse.
Using numbers seems to have a limit.
“As remained remarkably flat over the last few decades, even in countries like Germany, the UK, China, and India that have experienced huge GDP growth.”
Sleep deprivation, screen addiction, and increase of sight problems are a likely cause, urban sprawl and so on...
A high GDP’s not the problem...
Are kids ever polled for happiness? If you take only one sample, it’s gonna be bad. If you take a smaple every year, from 3 to 70, it’ll work better.
Easterlin paradox isn’t true.
If you want to measure, in a less skewed way, use MORE indicators, avoid Hoefstader’s law.
It’s also false, that growth did not benefit the average person, since it did. How many had e-readers, wireless headphones, and flat-screens in 2005?
Maybe, just age makes people sad? Maybe
That makes me more pessimistic about finding the relationship between biological indicators and self-reported human welfare.
Weight? Reported hours of sleep? Nearsightedness out of 10?
Here are indicators that work pretty well.